Calm on the bosom of thy God
Calm on the bosom of thy God. Felicia Hemans* (1793-1835).
This three-stanza poem was as follows in Hemans’ in Miscellaneous Poems (ca. 1823-4), where it was given the title ‘A Dirge’:
Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit! rest thee now!E’en while with ours thy footsteps trode His seal was on thy brow.
Dust, to its narrow house beneath! Soul, to its place on high!They that have seen thy look in death No more may fear to die.
Lone are the paths, and sad the bowers, Whence thy meek smile is gone;But oh! - a brighter home than ours, In heaven, is now thine own.
The first two stanzas had been written earlier. They come from The Siege of Valencia (1823), in which the...
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