Frances M. Sharpless (1835–1904)

Poems

• "As a Little Child"
• "Enfants Perdu"
• "I Have Never Received an Arrow with a Barb"
• "I Must Sleep Now"
• "I Will Forget Thee!—Yes, in the Grave—for the Dead Remember Not"
• "In the Grave There is Sleep"
• "Our Angel Walks Still Behind Us and Bears Our Sorrows and Sins"
• "Tarry With Me"
• "To be Wroth with One We Love"
• "We are the Old Women of To-day"
• "What Shall I Swear By?"
• "Will You Tread the Long Path with Me?"
• A Cathedral Sermon
• A City Fernery
• A Foolish Child
• A Hillside Spring
• A Little Red Rose
• A Message from Paradise
• A New Year Hymn
• A Night Song
• Along the Path of Sorrow
• Cardiphonia
• Chasing a Shadow
• Christmas—1863
• Concealed Love
• Day-Dawn
• Discontented
• E'en at Joy's Feast
• Epictetus
• Flower of Spring
• Gathered
• Greeting to the New Year
• Household Martyrs
• Household Sorrow
• I Love My Love
• I'm Watching
• Idealine
• In Memory of S. J. W.
• Jacob's Appeal
• Last Friends
• Lines Written on My Twenty-first Birthday
• Little Nellie
• Love's Choice
• Meadow Daisies
• Morning Among the Hills
• Mother Earth
• My Bird
• My Desire
• Not in Vain
• On My Twenty-third Birthday
• Pennsylvania
• Petitions
• Pro Patriæ
• Profile Mountain
• Rose and Rainbow
• Smile Upon Me
• Song of the Aged
• Steadfast in Courage
• Storm on the Hills
• The Advice of Chaucer-Modernized
• The Answer of Earth
• The Argynnis Cybele Butterfly
• The Chrysalis
• The Crowned Corinne
• The Escaped Bird
• The First Robin
• The Inn
• The Lesson of St. Macareus
• The Little While
• The One Refuge
• The Pyxie of the Pine Barrens
• The Soul's Companions
• The Step on the Stair
• The Taj Mahal
• The Tale of a Ship
• The Two Smiles
• The Unreturning
• The Unspeakable Gift
• The Voice of the Pine
• The Wounded Eagle
• Thoughts Suggested by a Picture of "Twilight"
• Tide of Time
• To My Sister R. S. B.
• To R. F. P.
• To Time—1858
• Translation of Lamartine's "Le Lac"
• Uhland's Death of a Country Pastor
• Up the Rhine
• Violets at the Opera
• When the Roses Bloomed
• Whom He Loveth He Chasteneth
• Woman's Glory