To Miss Dunbar Of Boath (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
HELEN , by every sympathy allied,By love of virtue and by love of song,Compassionate in youth, and beauty's pride,To thee ...
HELEN , by every sympathy allied,By love of virtue and by love of song,Compassionate in youth, and beauty's pride,To thee ...
IF, when the Spirit quits her clay-built cell,With incorporeal essences to dwell,Attachments form'd on earth their force retain,And with increasing ...
HAPPY the mind with self-enjoyment blest,Who makes the tranquil paths of life her choice;Seeks gentle Peace, 'mid tumults ne'er possest,And ...
FAIR deceiver, smiling phantom, By thy false, thy treach'rous light;How we paint each distant object, Dazzling to the ...
Though tall the oak, and firm its stem, Though far abroad its boughs are spread, Though high the poplar lifts ...
YE sons of men! with reverence bowBefore th' Almighty's throne!With adoration's hallow'd glow;His ceaseless goodness own:Obedient to his dread controul,Famine, ...
WELCOME, sweet season of delight,What beauties charm the wond'ring sightIn thy enchanting reign!How fresh descends the morning dew,Whilst op'ning flow'rs ...
QUEEN of the blest Angelic Choir!Bright native of the spheres!Whose pow'rs all Nature's works inspire,Whose notes, entranc'd, she hears,'Tis thou ...
MILD Evening shades abroad invite,The sun pours soft his rays;On every side th' enraptur'd sightA gladdening scene surveys.Lo! Plenty's horn ...
And own'd Him for my King,My Priest, my Prophet, and my GOD ,Who did salvation bring!With sorrow's tear in either ...
COOL evening invites--let us stray,Where the moon sweetly chequers the grove,While her beams on Tweed's wave gaily play,And PHILOMEL warbles ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
O THOU pale orb that silent shines While care-untroubled mortals sleep! Thou seest a wretch who inly pines. And wanders ...
Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the ...
FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light Th' enraptur'd innocent has wing'd her flight; On the kind bosom of eternal ...
A R I S E, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise To praise the monarch of the earth and skies, ...
Sweet is the dew that falls betimes, And drops upon the leafy limes; Sweet Hermon's fragrant air: Sweet is the ...
Argument. To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the Greeks to be a remedy for hopeless love, ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
WHERE on the bosom of the foamy RHINE, In curling waves the rapid waters shine; Where tow'ring cliffs in awful ...
THOU! whose sublime poetic art Can pierce the pulses of the heart, Can force the treasur'd tear to flow In ...
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