Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-09-26
POETRY
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OF THE ANGEL OF THE FLOWERS.
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rose mid Eden's virgin bowers.
ANA caught UPON my wings
Il our rosy tints, celestial nowersi
That sloomeJ beside her sprin.A
III eternal sun his golden light
shed through the perfumed air;
NO loot but mine, st morn OF night,
Could crush the flower cups there.
Inc morning dew dropgss they fell.
And spanked in her bowers.
Paln'. IN each bright and tiny cell.
HE Angel Of the Flowers
ana thou, sweet Bird Of Paradise.
Dancing from spray TO spray,
Who, in the soft and silver light,
Singest the livelong day
lhou ~ooed'st me with thy strain OF love
From howcry lawn to hill,
ana 10 my song-as ~re this woye-
Gay danced each laughing nil
Iby music, on the freighied breeze,
lhai Kissed tn Eiysian bowers,
ENHANCED, amid young Eden's trees,
The Angel OF the Flowers.
ARD when, IN that enchanting hour,
saw thee soar away,
rose with thee f.om Edon's bovsr
ln'o celestial day;
ne" DER earth. her A1wers to Gull,
And sigh'd for Edeh's bliss,
Among the bright and beautiful
Whose cheeks the soft winds kiss:
Sailing on the delicious breeze,
heard them in their bowers,
Zach daughter hni'd beneath the trees.
The hnsel Of the Flowers.
And as We sang n sad adieu
To our sweet Eden cline
heard angelic voices chant
a farewell song, sublime.
saw the m wave their hands and lem
Upon their harps the while:
wept-as closed the golden gate,
Upon their heavenly smile.
turned away, and on my wings
Caught the light Of Eden's bowers,
And Tar heard their farewell chan,
10 the Angel OF the Flowers.
Downward 10 earth wins'd my way,
And wooed the laughing girls
woye my roses in their cheeks.
TIER lips and sunny curls.
The lily's white, The roses blush
wove them into one;
braided in their hair The hush
or the golden, setting sun.
We pressing, nj! our hearts were one
We sang, those b,issful hours:
They pledged their love (oreyerno,s
To the Angel Of the Fowers.
saw one take her bridal vow,
A rose upon her breast
She pushed, as TO her bosom's shrire
der lovers hand she prest.
marked the graceful creatures tear.
As she gave her heart away.
And crushed, in that erbrsce. the rose
UPON her breast tina; lzy.
Its fragrance breathed from her sweat lios
As she kissed him in her bouers
And welcomed 10 their green retreat,
The Angel of the Flowers.
Another, IN her virgin bloom,
| watched upon the green
she bent above ;he churchyard tomb.
And wept for one within.
She plueked the moss rose from her trea.t
And placed it on his bier
AND as ner low voiced prayer she bTeathed,
! caught that mothers tear.
But. as size turned in grief away,
And sought her cypress bowers,
one tonehed her Lutte, IN plaintive strain,
To The Angel ofihs Flowers.
saw bright eyed child at play.
His laughing dinples hid
bene,th his silken eurls,-his eyes,
Like jewels of Giamsehid.
lie chases the gorgeous butterfly
From fragrant shrub TO tree
He plucked the wild rose from is stalk
And laughed with boyish elre.
That rose no thorn shall bear for him.
In youths unclou5ed hours
She famed tho cherub with her wing
Sweet Angel OF the Flowers.
And OH amid that lovely thrsng,
Two sisters in sweet glee,
Were singing, as they tripped along.
Oer blooming lawn and lea
They pluoked the daisy it, their path.
The violet from its bed,
And s,rewed them where brother Law.
To rest his aching head.
He kissed them for the grateful loon
So sweet in his sick hours,
And 6ade them cling, with sisters love.
To the Angel of the Flowers.
gszed at Beauty, as she sighed.
Upon her jeWSled throne.
And scattered wreaihs around. like pearls
That clasp her virgin zone
Queen like she trod-ber fairy feet
Tripping 10 songs Of ninth
The south wind dallisd with her checks.
Bright creature OF the EARTH
pressed her lilly hsnd in MING
AS we sought the rosy bowers,
breathed my perfumes to her lips
And Woman, since, herself hath been
The Angel Of The Flowers