Eliza Cook Hope Poems

  • 1.
    THREE summers have gone since the first time we met, love,
    And still 'tis in vain that I ask thee to wed ;
    I hear no reply but a gentle " Not yet, love,"
    With a smile of your lip, and a shake of your head.
    ...
  • 2.
    'Tis the streamer of England - it floats o'er the brave-
    'Tis the fairest unfurled o'er the land or the wave;
    But though brightest in story and matchless in fight,
    'Tis the heralds of Mercy as well as of Might.
    ...
  • 3.
    Cheer up, cheer up, my mother dear!
    Ah! Why do you sit and weep?
    Do you think that he who guards me here,
    Forsakes me on the deep?
    ...
  • 4.
    I gazed on orbs of flashing black;
    I met the glow of hazel light;
    I marked the hue of laughing blue,
    That sparkled in the festive night.
    ...
  • 5.
    THE ORB I like is not the one
    That dazzles with its lightning gleam;
    That dares to look upon the sun,
    As though it challenged brighter beam.
    ...
Total 5 Hope Poems by Eliza Cook

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Some Days retired from the rest
In soft distinction lie
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Or was obliged to die


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