Elizabeth Clementine Kinney

Poems (5)

• A Dream

  ’t was summer, and the spot a cool retreat— / Where curious eyes came not, nor footstep rude …

• Moonlight in Italy

  There ’s not a breath the dewy leaves to stir; / There ’s not a cloud to spot the sapphire sky; …

• The Blind Psalmist

  He sang the airs of olden times / In soft, low tones to sacred rhymes, …

• The Quakeress Bride

  No, not in the halls of the noble and proud, / Where Fashion assembles her glittering crowd, …

• To the Boy

  Thou happiest thing alive, / Anomaly of earth! …