Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)

Poems

• "And David said, let me now fall into the hand of the Lord"
• "Depart, Christian soul"
• "Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee"
• "Go, tell Peter"
• "He gathereth the lambs with his arm, and carrieth them in his bosom"
• "Hinder them not"
• "I have no greater joy, than to see my children walk in the truth"
• "I will arise and go unto my Father"
• "I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face"
• "Is it well with the child?"
• "It is finish'd"
• "Jesus of Nazareth passes by"
• "Jesus of Nazareth passes by" — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• "Keep Silence"
• "Keep Silence" — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• "Keep thy heart with all diligence"
• "Let there be light"
• "Lord, remember us"
• "Lord, remember us" — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• "O come! let us walk in the light of the Lord"
• "Oremus"
• "Oremus" — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• "Peace I leave with you"
• "Perdidi Diem" — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• "Redeeming the Time"
• "Show us the Father"
• "Show us the Father" — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• "The Dead praise not the Lord"
• "The Lord is in his holy temple;—let all the Earth keep silence before him"
• "The Son of Man, is Lord of the Sabbath"
• "Then whose shall those things be that thou hast provided?"
• "There go the Ships"
• "They said she was alone"
• "This is not your rest"
• "Thy mercies are new every morning and fresh every moment"
• "To die is Gain"
• "Trouble not yourselves, for his life is in him"
• A Circle of Friends compared to Flowers
• A Father's Pity
• A Father's Pity — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• A Name — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Abraham at Macpelah
• Abraham at Macpelah — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Active Piety
• Afraid to Die
• Afraid to Die — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Agriculture
• Alpine Flowers
• Anacharsis, the Philosopher
• Anna Boleyn — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• Appeal for Female Education in Greece
• Approach of Spring
• Approach of Spring — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Art thou a Christian?
• Art thou a Christian? — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Attending a former Pupil to the Grave
• Attending a former Pupil to the Grave — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Autumn on Staten Island
• Babe Buried at Sea — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• Babe dying in its Mother's Absence
• Babe dying in its Mother's Absence — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Birth-day Verses to a Little Girl
• Blossoms falling from Fruit-trees
• Bread in the Wilderness
• Bread in the Wilderness — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Bunker-Hill Monument
• Burial of Ashmun, at New-Haven, Aug. 1828
• Burial of two Young Sisters, the only Children of their Parents
• Changes
• Changes — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Changes during Sickness
• Charity Never Faileth
• Child left in a Storm
• Christian Hope
• Christian Settlements in Africa
• Christmas Hymn
• Cry of the Corannas
• Death among the Trees
• Death of a Father
• Death of a Father — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Death of a Former Pupil
• Death of a Friend
• Death of a Friend — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Death of a Son of the late Honorable Fisher Ames
• Death of a Wife during the Absence of her Husband
• Death of a Young Lady
• Death of a Young Lady at the Retreat for the Insane
• Death of a young Man devoted to Missions
• Death of a young Man devoted to Missions — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Death of a Young Musician
• Death of a Young Wife
• Death of an Aged Man
• Death of an Infant in its Mother's Arms
• Death of an Infant in its Mother's Arms — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Death of Beda
• Death of Dr. Todd, the Principal of the Retreat for the Insane, in Conn.
• Death of Mr. Oliver D. Cooke
• Death of Mrs. Harriet W. L. Winslow, Missionary to Ceylon
• Death of the Rev. Alfred Mitchell
• Death of the Rev. Dr. Cornelius
• Death of the Rev. Gordon Hall
• Death of the Rev. W. C. Walton
• Death of the Wife of a Clergyman, during the Sickness of her Husband
• Death of Wilberforce
• Death's Chosen Ally
• Departure of Missionaries for Ceylon
• Dreams — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Dreams — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• Earth's Delusions
• Earth's Delusions — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Education of Pious and Indigent Young Men
• Establishment of a Female College in New-Grenada, South America
• Evening Devotions in a Prison
• Evening Flowers
• Expostulation
• Fallen Forests
• Falls of the Yantic
• Farewell of a Missionary to Africa, at the Grave of his Wife and Child
• Farewell of the Soul to the Body
• Farewell of the Soul to the Body — Zinzendorff and Other Poems
• Farewell to a Rural Residence
• Farewell to a Rural Residence — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Farewell to Edinburgh
• Farewell to Edinburgh — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Farewell to Niagara
• Farewell to the Flowers
• Felicia Hemans
• Female Education
• Filial Claims
• Filial Grief
• First Church at Jamestown, Virginia
• Flora's Party
• Folly
• Folly — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Forbearance with Frailty
• Foreign Missions
• Forgotten Flowers. To a Bride
• Friendship with the Dead
• Funeral at Nazareth
• Funeral at Sea
• Funeral in a New Colony
• Funeral of a Neighbour
• Funeral of a Neighbour — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Funeral of Dr. Mason F. Coggswell
• Garafilia Mohalby
• Gemini
• Gemini — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• General Putnam
• Go To Thy Rest
• Good-night of the Birds
• Good-night of the Birds — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Gossip with a Spring Bouquet
• Grassmere and Rydal Water
• Grassmere and Rydal Water — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Harvest Hymn
• He Told his Love in Flowers
• Heaven's Lesson
• Heaven's Lesson — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• High Street Garden
• Home Missions
• Home of an Early Friend
• Home of the Duellist
• Home of the Duellist — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• How Far From Home
• Huguenot Fort
• Hymn at Sea
• Hymn at Sea — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Hymn for a Charitable Association
• Hymn in Sickness
• Hymn in Sickness — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Imprisonment for Debt
• Indian Names — Pieces People Ask For
• Indian Names — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• Indian Names — Poems
• Joy in Believing
• Judge Trumbull
• King Frost and the Garden Beauties
• Lady Jane Grey
• Lady Rosse
• Lafayette
• Last Hours of the Hon. William Wirt
• Last Words of an Indian Chief
• Last Words of an Indian Chief — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Laura Bridgman
• Laura Bridgman — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Lazarus
• Library of Dr. Bowditch
• Library of Dr. Bowditch — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Life's Evening
• Life's Evening — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Love not the World
• Love not the World — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Love of Wealth
• Love of Wealth — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Man—Woman
• Meeting of the Susquehannah with the Lackawanna
• Memory (Sigourney)
• Midnight Music
• Midnight Thoughts at Sea
• Midnight Thoughts at Sea — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Migration of Birds
• Migration of Birds — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Minerva's Prize
• Ministry of Flowers
• Missions to Africa
• Mistaken Grief
• Monody on Mrs. Hemans
• Monody on Mrs. Hemans — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Monody to Mrs. Sarah L. Smith
• Monody to Mrs. Sarah L. Smith — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Montauk Point
• Monte-Video
• Montpelier
• Moonlight at Sachem's Wood
• Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse
• Moravian Missions to Greenland
• Morn and Even
• Morn and Even — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Mutations
• Mutations — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Nahant
• Napoleon's Epitaph
• Native Scenery
• Native Scenery — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Nature's Beauty
• Niagara
• Niagara — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• Oak in Autumn
• Oak in Autumn — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• On hearing Sacred Music well Performed
• On hearing Sacred Music well Performed — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• On Reading the "Remains" of Rev. Edmund D. Griffin
• On Reading the Description of Pompeii, in the "Remains of the Rev. E. D. Griffin"
• On Reading the Memoirs of Mrs. Judson
• On Seeing a Lady's Gold Chain, among the Offerings at a Temperance Society
• On the Celebration of Washington's Birth day at Rome, by Americans
• On the Close of the Year 1832
• On the Death of a Friend
• On the Death of a Lady at Havana, whither she went for her Health
• On the Death of the Rev. Samuel Green of Boston
• On the Union of Ladies of Great Britain. with those of America, in plans of Benevolence for Africa
• Our Teachers
• Our Teachers — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Parting — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Parting Hymn of the Missionaries to Burmah
• Passage up the Connecticut
• Pelican on the Sea of Galilee
• Pelican on the Sea of Galilee — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Planting Flowers on the Grave of Parents
• Planting Flowers on the Grave of Parents — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Planting Geranium and Box on the Grave of an Aged Friend
• Pocahontas — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Pocahontas Notes — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Poesy — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• Power of the Almighty
• Power of the Almighty — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Prayer at Sea
• Prayer at Sea — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Prayers of the Deaf and Dumb
• Prisoners' Evening Hymn
• Queen Elizabeth and the Countess of Nottingham
• Religious Tracts
• Removal of an Ancient Mansion
• Request of the Dying Child
• Request of the Dying Child — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Return of the Parents
• Return of the Parents — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Return of the Pastor
• Return of the Pastor — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Rose-Mount
• Sabbath Evening in the Country
• Sabbath Meditations
• Sabbath Meditations — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Sacred Music
• Sacred Music — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Sailor's Hymn
• Sale of Ardent Spirits by Christians
• Scenes in my Native Land
• Science and Religion
• Science and Religion — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Seamen
• Seed for Heaven
• Seed for Heaven — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Separation — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Sheep on the Cheviot Hills
• Sheep on the Cheviot Hills — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter I
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter II
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter III
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter IV
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter IX
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter V
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter VI
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter VII
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter VIII
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter X
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter XI
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter XII
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter XIII
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter XIV
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter XV
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter XVI
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter XVII
• Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since — Chapter XVIII
• Sleeping Child
• Sleeping Child — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Sleeping Child (Lydia Sigourney)
• Sonnet — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Spring Blossoms to the Mourner
• Statue of the Spinning Girl
• Statue of the Spinning Girl — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Sunrise at New London
• Sunset on the Alleghany
• The Aged Bishop
• The Aged Bishop — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Ancient Monument
• The Ancient Monument — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Babe bereaved of its Mother
• The Beautiful Child
• The Beautiful Child — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Bereaved — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Bible Class in the Connecticut State Prison
• The Blossom and the Beautiful
• The Bride (Sigourney)
• The Broken Vase
• The Butterfly
• The Butterfly — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Butterfly (Sigourney)
• The Cactus Speciosissimus
• The Chair of the Indian King — Poems
• The Chair of the Indian King
• The Charter-Oak, at Hartford
• The Cheerful Giver
• The Christian going Home
• The Christian Mourner
• The Church Bell
• The Church Bell — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Coming of Christ
• The Communion
• The Conquerors of Spain
• The Constant Friends
• The Coral Insect — Poems
• The Coral Insect — Poems
• The Coral Insect
• The Daughter
• The Dead Horseman
• The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Girl of the American Asylum at Hartford, Con.
• The Death of the Motherless
• The Deep
• The Deep — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Defection of the Disciples
• The Defection of the Disciples — Zinzendorff and Other Poems
• The Departed Friend
• The Departed Friend — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Departed Pastor
• The Departed Pastor — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Departure of Miss Hannah More, from Barley Wood, April 18, 1828, at the Age of Eighty-three
• The Desert Flower
• The Deserted Nest
• The Desolate Cottage
• The Desolate Cottage — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Divided Burden
• The Divided Burden — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Dying Mother — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Dying Philosopher — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• The Dying Year
• The Dying Year — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Early Blue-bird
• The Early Blue-bird — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Early Frost
• The Elm-trees
• The Elm-trees — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Emigrant Daisy
• The Evening Primrose
• The Fireside — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The First Morning of Spring
• The Flowers of Spring
• The Friends of Man
• The Grave of the Queen of Prussia
• The Great Oak of Geneseo
• The Greenland Convert
• The Greenland Convert — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Half-Century Sermon
• The Hare-Bell
• The Heath in the Desert
• The Heath in the Desert — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Hermit of the Falls
• The Housatonic
• The Huguenot Pastor
• The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
• The Jews
• The Journey with the Dead
• The King of the Icebergs
• The King of the Icebergs — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Last Song
• The Last Song — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Liberated Prisoner
• The Lily's Whisper
• The Lobelia Cardinalis
• The Lost Sister
• The Martyr of Scio — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• The May-Flower
• The May-Flower — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Milliners and Fishes
• The Milliners and Fishes — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Mother Summoned
• The Mother Summoned — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Mourner Comforted
• The Mourner Comforted — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Muffled Knocker
• The New-England Village
• The New-England Village — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The New-Zealand Missionary
• The Newport Tower
• The Past — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Pestilence
• The Pholas
• The Pilgrim — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Poet's Books
• The Poet's Books — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Rev. Legh Richmond, among the Ruins of Iona
• The Rose-Geranium. Companion of a Voyage
• The Ruins of Herod's Palace
• The Ruins of Herod's Palace — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Ruler's Faith
• The Sabbath
• The Sacred Poet
• The Sacred Poet — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Sailor's Appeal
• The Sailor's Appeal — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Sea Boy
• The Shipwreck — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Snow Drop
• The Snow-Storm
• The Soap Bubble
• The Stars — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• The Stockbridge Bowl
• The Stranger's Flower
• The Sun
• The Sun — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Tears of April
• The Test of Life
• The Three Little Graves
• The Three Little Graves — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Tomb of Josephine
• The Tomb of Josephine — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• The Tower at Montevideo
• The Tree of Love
• The Tree of Love — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Tulip and Eglantine
• The Tulip and Eglantine — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Washington Elm
• The Western Emigrant
• The White Lily
• The Widow at Her Daughter's Bridal
• The Widow's Prayer
• The Widow's Prayer — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Winter Bouquet
• The Winter Hyacinth
• The Winter Nosegay
• The Winter Nosegay — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• The Young Mother
• The Young Mother — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Thoughts among the Trees
• Thoughts among the Trees — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Thoughts at the Grave of Sir Walter Scott
• Thoughts at the Grave of Sir Walter Scott — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Thoughts for Mourners
• Thoughts on Returning from Church
• To a Fragment of Cotton
• To a Fragment of Cotton — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• To a Goose
• To a Goose — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• To a Shred of Linen — Pocahontas, and Other Poems
• To a Shred of Linen
• To the Misletoe at the Tomb of Washington
• Tomb of a Young Friend at Mount Auburn
• Transplanted Flowers
• Trenton Falls
• True Wisdom
• True Wisdom — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Uzziah
• Væ Vobis
• Vale of the Mohawk
• Vale of the Mohawk — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Vale of Wyoming
• Visit to the Birthplace
• Visit to the Birthplace — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Voice from the Grave of a Sunday-school Teacher
• Widow at her Daughter's Bridal
• Widow at her Daughter's Bridal — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Wife of a Missionary at her Husband's Grave
• Wife of a Missionary at her Husband's Grave — Pocahontas and Other Poems
• Wild Flowers, gathered for a Sick Friend
• Winter's Fête
• Winter's Fête — Pocahontas and Other Poems