English Poetry. Lydia Huntley Sigourney. With Wild Flowers To a Sick Friend. Лидия Сигурни.

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (Лидия Сигурни)

With Wild Flowers To a Sick Friend

Rise from the dells where ye first were born,
From the tangled beds of the weed and thorn,
Rise! for the dews of the morn are bright,
And haste away with your brows of light.--
--Should the green-house patricians with gathering frown,
On your plebian vestures look haughtily down,
Shrink not,--for His finger your heads hath bow'd,
Who heeds the lowly and humbles the proud.--
--The tardy spring, and the frosty sky,
Have meted your robes with a miser's eye,
And check'd the blush of your blossoms free,--
With a gentler friend your home shall be;
To a kinder ear you may tell your tale
Of the zephyr's kiss and the scented vale;--
Ye are charm'd! ye are charm'd! and your fragrant sigh
Is health to the bosom on which ye die.

Lydia Huntley Sigourney’s other poems:

1. The Indian’s Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
2. Flora’s Party
3. Death of an Infant
4. Indian Summer
5. Sudden Death

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