A Prayer For Indifference (Frances Greville Poems)
"Oft I've implor'd the gods in vain, And pray'd till I've been weary; For once I'll seek my wish ...
"Oft I've implor'd the gods in vain, And pray'd till I've been weary; For once I'll seek my wish ...
Angelic theme of ancient lays! By Doric hills, Athenian vales, The nations bound thy brows with bays And ...
THE SUN is sinking over hill and sea,Its red light fires a spectral line of shore;Night droops upon our half-world ...
SLOWLY, with day's dying fall,And with many a solemn sound,Slowly from the Athenian wallThe long procession wound.Five days of the ...
A Fond Athenian Mother brought A Sculptor to indulge her Thought, And carve her Only Son; Who to such strange ...
THE monument outlasting bronze Was promised well by bards of old; The lucid outline of their lay Its sweet precision ...
WHO, born at Arpinum, of origin mean,Left the plough for the camp, and the crook for the sword?And, before his ...
Night is fair Virtue's immemorial friend.The conscious moon through every distant ageHas held a lamp to Wisdom, and let fallOn ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
A Fond Athenian Mother brought A Sculptor to indulge her Thought, And carve her Only Son; Who to such strange ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
(From Oedipus at Colonus) Chorus. Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies, The nightingale ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
'Tis Nancy's birth-day--raise your strains, Ye nymphs of the Parnassian plains, And sing with more than usual glee To Nancy, ...
When in from Delos came the gold That held the dream of Pericles, When first Athenian ears were told The ...
I O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken Primrose fading timelesslie, Summers chief honour if thou hadst ...
VIII Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease, If ever deed of ...
Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did ...
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