The Poems of Felicia Hemans
Where is the summer with her golden sun, 349
Where is the tree the prophet threw, 496
Where met our bards of old? The glorious throng, 246
Where shall I find some desert scene so rude, 47
Where shall I find in all this fleeting earth, 489
Where shall the minstrel find a theme, 534
Where shall we make her grave, 549
Where sucks the bee now? Summer is flying, 355
Where the long reeds quiver, 581
Wherefore and whither bear’st thou up my spirit, 483
While the blue is richest, 565
Whisper, thou tree, thou lonely tree, 473
Whither, celestial maid, so fast away, 53
Whither, oh whither, wilt thou wing thy way, 628
Who watches on the mountains with the dead, 598
Why art thou thus in thy beauty cast, 524
Why lingers my gaze where the last hues of day, 149
Why wouldst thou leave me, O gentle child, 423
Wildly and mournfully the Indian drum, 406
Willow! in thy breezy moan, 542
With sixty knights in his gallant train, 238
With what young life and vigour in its breath, 256
Wouldst thou to love of danger speak, 48
Wouldst thou wear the gift of immortal bloom, 439
Wrapt in sad musings, by Euphrates’ stream, 43
Ye are not miss’d, fair flowers, that late were spreading, 542
Ye have been holy, O founts and floods, 474
Ye met at the stately feasts of old, 480
Ye tell me not of birds and bees, 499
Ye too, the free and fearless birds of air, 602
Yes! all things tell us of a birthright lost, 622
Yes! I came from the spirit’s land, 343
Yes! I have seen the ancient oak, 347
Yes! it is haunted, this quiet scene, 358
Yes! it is ours: the field is won, 245
Yes! rear thy guardian hero’s form, 485
Yes! thou hast met the sun’s last smile, 360
Yet as a sun-burst flushing mountain-snow, 599
Yet, rolling far up some green mountain-dale, 618
You ugliest of fabrics! you horrible eyesore, 382
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