The Amethyst; An Annual of Literature - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831. Excerpt: ... THE DEAD BRIDE. BY N. C. BROOKS. The moon's bright beams, like liquid silver pour From her full orb, the opened casement through, And shed their lustrous brilliancy upon The face of sleeping beauty. Zephyrs mild, With lightsome wing, are fanning her soft cheeks, And gently stir upon her snowy brow The glossy ringlets of her raven hair. The bride of Asman sleeps. Her dark blue eyes, Are curtained from the sight by glossy folds Of soft and silken fringe. A placid smile Oerspreads her features, and her rosy lips Are sweetly parting, as if bliss too pure For waking hours was gushing through her breast In gentle tides of sweet ethereal joy. So calm, so sweet, so silent her repose, Her breathing is not heard; the gentle blood Glides pulseless through her veins, and the drawn breath, Heaves not her rounded bosom's snowy swell. The bride of Asman's dead. Her calm repose Is the still dreamless slumber of the grave. Death's gloom is on her eyes; their snowy lids Are closed to ope no more; and her pale brow Has drear mortality's cold, icy chill, And the sweet smile, her lovely features wear The peaceful soul imparted, as it left Its spotless shrine within her virtuous breast, Giving her smiling lips th' ambrosial glow Of heavenly life and immortality. The bride's upon her bier. Wrapped in her shroud Of long and snowy white, we seem to gaze Upon a seraph of the upper spheres, Reclining in her white and shining train On couch of pure and heavenly brightness, Till the dark wreaths of cypress round her strew'd The rending groans of Asman's bursting heart, And the funereal tapers burning at her head Confirm the mournful truth, the lovely Ada's dead. THE STAR OP ST. PHILIPPE. BY CYPRIAN ORMOND. "She was si form of life and light, Which seen became a part of sight And rose...