Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King (Matthew Prior Poems)
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
HO! City of the gay! Paris! what festal riteDoth call thy thronging million forth, All eager for the sight?Thy soldiers line the ...
'Twas night, and the moonbeams palely fellOn the gloomy walls of a cheerless cell,Where a captive sought a brief reposeFrom ...
MY cousin, I have never seen thee--yetFrom childhood's early years my dearest thoughtsHave been so full of thee, I almost ...
Thou metamorphic god!Who mak'st the straight Olympus thy abode, Hermes to subtle laughter moving, Apollo with serener loving,Thou demi-god also!Who dost all ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
You say there's a Being all-loving, Whose nature is justice and pity; Could you say where you ...
The god Is near, and hard to grasp. But where there is danger, A rescuing element grows as well. Eagles ...
Opening Passage No man e'er loved like me ! When but a boy Love was my solace and my only ...
LAY him beneath his snows, The great Norse giant who in these last days Troubled the nations. Gather decently The ...
Come thou, my soul, into this silent land ; Forget all thought of fame and kneeling crowds, And here, alone, ...
Did I follow Truth wherever she led,And stand against the whole world for a cause,And uphold the weak against the ...
Well, after all the prattle buzzed around The soldier's victory, the miser's gold, The statesman's eloquence, the manifold And subtle ...
The mighty forces of mysterious spaceAre one by one subdued by lordly man.The awful lightning that for eons ranTheir devastating ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not ...
Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak ...
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