Frances Anne Kemble

Poems

"'Tis an old Tale and often told"
A Lament for the Wissahiccon
A Promise (By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow)
A Promise (In the dark, lonely night)
A Retrospect
A Spirit's Voice
A Wish (Let me not die for ever, when I'm gone)
A Wish (Oh! that I were a fairy sprite, to wander)
A Wish (While thus I gaze on thee, and watch thee glide)
An Apology
An Entreaty
An Evening Song
An Invitation
Eastern Sunset
Epistle from the Rhine
Farewell to Italy
Fragment (It was the harvest time: the broad, bright moon)
Fragment (Oh! for the temperate airs that blow)
Fragment (Walking by moonlight on the golden margin)
Impromptu (Thou who within thyself dost not behold)
Impromptu (You say you're glad I write—oh, say not so)
Lament for Israel
Lines addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts
Lines for Music (Good night! from music's softest spell)
Lines for Music (Loud wind, strong wind, where art thou blowing)
Lines for Music (Oh, sunny Love)
Lines on a Sleeping Child
Lines written at Night
Lines Written in London
On a Forget-Me-Not
On a Musical Box
Song (I sing the yellow leaf)
Song (Never, oh never more! shall I behold)
Song (Pass thy hand through my hair, love)
Song (The moment must come, when the hands that unite)
Song (When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes)
Song (Where is thy home in thy promised land)
Sonnet ('Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all)
Sonnet (Art thou already weary of the way?)
Sonnet (Away, away! bear me away, away)
Sonnet (Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn)
Sonnet (But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile)
Sonnet (By jasper founts, whose falling waters make)
Sonnet (Cover me with your everlasting arms)
Sonnet (I hear a voice low in the sunset woods)
Sonnet (I would I knew the lady of thy heart)
Sonnet (Lady, whom my beloved loves so well)
Sonnet (Like one who walketh in a plenteous land)
Sonnet (Not in our dreams, not even in our dreams)
Sonnet (Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought)
Sonnet (Oh weary, weary world! how fall thou art)
Sonnet (Oh, modest maiden morn! why dost thou blush)
Sonnet (Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more")
Sonnet (Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air)
Sonnet (There 's not a fibre in my trembling frame)
Sonnet (Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil)
Sonnet (Though thou return unto the former things)
Sonnet (Whence should they come, lady! those happy days)
Sonnet (Whene'er I recollect the happy time)
The Minstrel's Grave
The Prayer of a Lonely Heart
The Red Indian
The Vision of Life
To ——— (I would I might be with thee, when the year)
To ——— (Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee)
To ——— (The fountain of my life, which flowed so free)
To ——— (What recks the sun, how weep the heavy flowers)
To ——— (When the dawn)
To ——— (When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky)
To ——— (When we first met, dark wintry skies were glooming)
To ——— (Yet once again, but once, before we sever)
To Miss ———
To Mrs. ——— (I never shall forget thee—'tis a word)
To Mrs. ——— (Oh lady! thou, who in the olden time)
To Mrs. Dulaney
To My Guardian Angel
To the Dead
To the Nightingale
To the Picture of a Lady
To the Spring
To the Wissahiccon
To Thomas Moore, Esq.
Written after leaving West Point
Written after spending a Day at West Point
Written on Cramond Beach