BY

FELICIA HEMANS

ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY E. H. BUTLER & CO.

1866.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

SHELDON FUND

JULY 10, 1940

SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS.

They tell but dreams-a lonely spirit's dreams;
Yet ever through their fleeting imagery

Wanders a vein of melancholy love,

An aimless thought of home; as in the song
Of the caged skylark ye may deem there dwells
A passionate memory of blue skies and flowers,
And living streams-far off!

A SPIRIT'S RETURN.

"This is to be a mortal,

And seek the things beyond mortality!"

MANFRED.

THY voice prevails-dear friend, my gentle friend!

This long-shut heart for thee shall be unsealed,
And though thy soft eye mournfully will bend

Over the troubled stream, yet once revealed
Shall its freed waters flow; then rocks must close
For evermore, above their dark repose.

Come while the gorgeous mysteries of the sky
Fused in the crimson sea of sunset lie;

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