Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IMAGES OF PATRIARCHAL LIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: Calm scenes of patriarch life!
Last Line: The voices, earliest by the soul revered!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring


CALM scenes of patriarch life! how long a power
Your unworn pastoral images retain
O'er the true heart, which in its childhood's hour
Drank their pure freshness deep! The camels' train
Winding in patience o'er the desertplain --
The tent, the palm-tree, the reposing flock,
The gleaming fount, the shadow of the rock --
Oh! by how subtle, yet how strong a chain,
And in the influence of its touch how blessed,
Are these things linked, in many a thoughtful breast,
To household-memories, thro' all change endeared!
-- The matin bird, the ripple of a stream
Beside our native porch, the hearth-light's gleam,
The voices, earliest by the soul revered!





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