The Gecko (Leon Gellert Poems)
The Gecko lying on his stoneIs always very much alone,Nor is the reason hard to traceBy those who've seen its ...
The Gecko lying on his stoneIs always very much alone,Nor is the reason hard to traceBy those who've seen its ...
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
PreludesI The Rose of the World Lo, when the Lord made North and ...
THE WAGER.Counter and Clubb were men in trade, whose pains,Credit, and prudence, brought them constant gains;Partners and punctual, every friend ...
Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North. A Journal. To humbler strains, ye Nine, descend, And ...
Oh, for a drink, to-night,Mixed by some god of might,A draught of strange device,Though of exorbitant price,To give this tortured ...
Hail happy pair from whom such raptures rise,On whom I gaze with pleasure and surprize;From thy bright rays the gloom ...
I ne'er (tho' fame applaud me to my wrong) Stood forth the champion of Heroic Song; Or once have felt ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
There was a man who would marry his mother, and asked his father for his mother's hand in marriage, and ...
I Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke To Priam's palace, sword in hand, to sate On that adulterous whore a ...
YOUNG Peggy blooms our boniest lass, Her blush is like the morning, The rosy dawn, the springing grass, With early ...
RIGHT, sir! your text I'll prove it true, Tho' heretics may laugh; For instance, there's yourself just now, God knows, ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
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