Lady Jane Wilde Hear Poems
- 1. Salvation
When the gloom is deepest round thee;
When the bands of grief have bound thee,
And in loneliness and sorrow,
By the poisoned springs of life
... - 2. Instability. From The Spanish.-sixteenth Century
When the day is brightest,
Darkness draweth near;
When the heart is lightest,
Coming grief I fear.
... - 3. A Servian Song
Wherefore neighest thou so sadly?
Stampest with the hoof so madly?
Speak my steed-why at the tent
With thy stately neck down bent?
... - 4. Suleima To Her Lover.from The Turkish
Thou reck'nest seven Heavens; I but one:
And thou art it, Beloved! Voice and hand,
And eye and mouth, are but the angel band
Who minister around that highest throne
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