DAY-DREAMS.
BYMARTHA ALLEN.
"'Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, ev'n as I do now."PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, AND CO.
1852.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, AND CO., in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA: T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.
PREFACE.
TIMIDLY, yet hopefully, I sent forth these thoughts, fancies, and dreams, which, in writing, brightened many a lonely hour; and if they but recall a pleasurable recollection, or charm away the dulness of a long winter's evening, my end will be attained. True, as Solomon says, "There is nothing new under the sun"—the more freely, then, I offer the effusions of a neophyte in the paths of literature. Greet me with sweet smiles and gentle words; your heart-warm sympathies will inspire me with energy to make renewed efforts for the goal we all strive to win—the approval of our friends.
M. A.
Contents.
- A CHRISTMAS SKETCH. 13
- THE MOTHER. 20
- JACK FROST. 24
- DEATH OF TIME. 29
- QUEEN KATHARINE PARR—A LEAP FROM HER LIFE. 33
- PARADISE AND THE PERI. 40
- A SCENE AT NIAGARA. 49
- THE LOST PLEIAD. 55
- THREE DAYS IN THE PALACE. 64
- THE WIND OF THE WINTER NIGHT. 72
- LOVE AND MINERVA. 79
- THE ANGEL AND THE SPIRIT OF DEATH. 81
- JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER. 86
- THE CONVICT. 93
- LOVE AND HOPE. 99
- A SKETCH FROM LIFE. 103
- LEGEND OF THE BLACK DEATH. 109
- SHADOWS. 114
- THE LAMENT OF THE ROSE-BUSH. 117
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- THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. 121
- A VISION. 124
- THE TWIN SOULS. 130
- SIN AND DEATH. 135
- MEMORY AND HOPE. 145
- THE MAGDALEN. 149
