Frances Anne Kemble Poems

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11.
A Noonday Vision

I saw one whom I love more than my life
Stand on a perilous edge of slippery rock,
Under her feet the waters' furious strife,
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12.
A Farewell

I SHALL come no more to the Cedar Hall,
The fairies' palace, beside the stream;
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13.
A Picture

Through the half-open'd casement stream'd the light
Of the departing sun. The golden haze
Of the red western sky fell warm and bright
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14.
A Wish (Ii)

Let me not die for ever! when I'm laid
In the cold earth; but let my memory
Live still among ye, like the evening shade,
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15.
An Answer

Could I be sure that I should die
The moment you had ceased to love me,
I would not turn so fearfully
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16.
A Retrospect

Life wanes, and the bright sunlight of our youth
Sets o'er the mountain-tops, where once Hope stood.
O Innocence! O Trustfulness! O Truth!
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17.
A Vision Of The Vatican

In the great palace halls, where dwell the gods,
I heard a voice filling the vaulted roof;
The heart that uttered it seemed sorrow-proof,
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18.
A Lament For The Wissahiccon

The waterfall is calling me
With its merry gleesome flow,
And the green boughs are beckoning me,
To where the wild flowers grow:
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19.
Translation From Alfred De Musset’s Ode To Malibran

O Maria Felicia! the Painter and Bard,
Behind them in dying leave undying heirs,
The night of oblivion their memory spares,
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20.
Lines Written At Belvoir Castle, 1883

Two things remain unalter'd in this place,
Tho' since I came here forty years are told—
The smiling loveliness of Nature's face,
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