The Decision Of Fortune (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Fortune well-Pictur'd on a rolling Globe, With waving Locks, and thin transparent Robe, A Man beholding, to his Neighbor cry'd, ...
Fortune well-Pictur'd on a rolling Globe, With waving Locks, and thin transparent Robe, A Man beholding, to his Neighbor cry'd, ...
As Colin was tripping it over the Green,By Way of a Walk for to drive out the Spleen;It chanc'd that ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
But may a Rural Pen try to set forthSuch a Great Fathers Ancient Grace and worthI undertake a no less ...
Oh! sadly sing my weeping Muse 'Till Echo mourn again; An honest Tallow-Chandler's dirge, Should be a melting strain. Although ...
What doth this noise of thoughts within my heart, As if ...
1. When Busy Fame, o'er all the Plain Phylena's Praises rung, And on their Oaten(1) Pipes, each Swain Her Matchless ...
In Progress you have little faith, say you:Men will maintain dear interests, wreak base hates,By force, and gentle women choose ...
"It is the future generation that presses into being by means of these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
The Landing "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Peoples of the world, together Join to serve the common cause! So it feeds us all for ever See to ...
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease. But one such death remain'd to come; The ...
Youth of delight come hither. And see the opening morn, Image of truth new born. Doubt is fled & clouds ...
In elder days, in Saturn's prime, Ere baldness seized the head of Time, While truant Jove, in infant pride, Play'd ...
MY spirit to yours, dear brother; Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you; I do ...
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
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