(1825-1906 / England)

Poems of Edward Henry Bickersteth

1. A Lament for Persia 9/28/2010
2. A Mother to Her Son on His Birthday 9/28/2010
3. Addressed to a Friend, Accompanied by a Brooch Containing Hair Arranged as a Lute 9/28/2010
4. Aspasia to Pericles 9/28/2010
5. Bright and Beautiful Sea 9/28/2010
6. Cease to Weep 9/28/2010
7. Cleopatra to Marc Anthony 9/28/2010
8. December 9/28/2010
9. Description of a Thunder Storm 9/28/2010
10. Elegiac Stanzas on a Departed Parent 9/28/2010
11. Farewell to Guernsey 9/28/2010
12. Farewell to the Year Which is Past 9/28/2010
13. Fragment 9/28/2010
14. His Name. From the French of Victor Hugo 9/28/2010
15. Invocation to my Muse 9/28/2010
16. Le Giroflee 9/28/2010
17. Lines Written on Hearing My Daughter Sing Mrs. Norton's 9/28/2010
18. My Summer-House 9/28/2010
19. Ode 9/28/2010
20. Oh! heed not those beams 9/28/2010

Cease to Weep

Life is at best a thorny path,
Then let us pluck the flowers,
And cease to weep
For those who sleep,
Embalm'd in Mem'ry's bowers.
Their days though few, yet happier far,
Than those who loiter here;
They sweetly rest
On nature's breast,

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