Identifier: poetspoetryofame1853gris (find matches)
Title: The poets and poetry of America : to the middle of the nineteenth century
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 Haynes, F.W., former owner
Subjects: American poetry American poetry
Publisher: Philadelphia : A. Hart, late Carey & Hart
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Ere those eyes had wept an errror,
What thy beauty must have been!

Ere those lips had paled their crimson,
Quivering with the soul's despair,
Ere with pain they oft had parted
In thine agony of prayer,
Or, instead of pearls, the tear-drops
Glisten'd in thy streaming hair.

While in ignorance of sorrow
Still thy heart serenely dream'd,
And the morning light of girlhood
On thy cheeks young garden beam'd,
Where th' abundant rose was blushing,
Not of earth couldst thou have seem'd.

When thy frailty fell upon thee,
Lovely wert thou, even then;
Shame itself could not disarm thee
Of the charms that vanquishd men;
Which of Salems purest daughters
Match'd the sullied Magdalen ?

But thy Master's eye beheld thee
Foul and all unworthy heaven;
Pitied, pardon'd, purged thy spirit
Of its black, pernicious leaven;
Drove the devils from out the temple,
All the dark and guilty seven.

Oh the beauty of repentance!
Mary, tenfold fairer now
Art thou with those dewy eyelids,
And that anguish on thy brow;
Ah, might every sinful sister
Grow in beauty e'vn as thou
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EMILE

WILLIAM W. LORD.
(Born about 1818.)
Mn. Lord is a native of Western New York,
and is descended through both his parents from the
New England Puritans. His father was a Pres-
byterian clergyman, and his mother, who now re-
sides with her eldest son, the Rev. Dr. Lonn of
Buffalo, is a woman of refinement and cultiva-
tion. He had therefore the advantages of a good
domestic training. He exhibited at a very early
age a love of letters, and soon became familiar
with SHAKSPEARE and the other great writers of
the Elizabethan age, and probably few men are
now more familiar with English literature in all
its departments. During his college life his health
failed, and his friends, yielding to a desire for a sea
voyage, committed him to the care of the master of
a whale ship, owned by a family friend at New
London. After being a few weeks at sea he grew
weary of the monotony of a cabin passage, and,
against the remonstrances of the captain, forced
his way into the forecastle, where he soon became
a sturdy

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