The Scottish Muse (Hector MacNeill Poems)
O Welcome simply soothing treasure!In midst o' pain my lanely pleasure!Tutor'd by thee, and whispering leisure, I quit the thrang,And, wrapt ...
O Welcome simply soothing treasure!In midst o' pain my lanely pleasure!Tutor'd by thee, and whispering leisure, I quit the thrang,And, wrapt ...
"O LEND your wings, ye fav'ring gales, And gently wave the sea;And swell my husband's spreading sails, And waft him home to ...
Oh, what a lovely silent spot!'Mid such a scene the eremite would hopeTo build his lowly cot,Just where with easy ...
Once upon a time, I layFast asleep at dawn of day;Windows open to the south,Fancy pouting her sweet mouthTo my ...
Black loom the crags of the uplands behind me,Dark are the sands of the far-stretching shore.Dim are the pathways and ...
WHILE every muse impatient waits To meet the hero on the strand,And welcome Collingwood's return, Triumphant! to his native land,Will he forgive ...
In a vale of light and laughter,Shining 'neath the friendly sun,Where fulfilment follow'd afterEv'ry hope or dream begun;Where an Aidenn ...
NOW Winter pours his terrors o'er the plain,And icy barriers close the wild domain,From the fierce North the sweeping blast ...
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
IN Gallia's kingdom, near a forest wild,There liv'd a peasant, and his only child;A female, to whom Nature, most unkind,Had ...
Celestial Muse that on the blissful plainArt oft invok'd, to guide th' immortal strain;Inspir'd by thee, the first-born sons of ...
ARLA. THE pious sire of ARLA rear'd her youth Strongly to feel the great Creator's power; In her pure bosom ...
Madame,VVhil'st that, for which all vertue now is sold, And almost every vice, almightie gold,That which, to boote with hell, ...
Sleep, Venice, sleep! the evening gun resounds Over the waves that rock thee on their breast; The bugle ...
"As on a rock's stern brow entranc'd I lay, The deaf'ning surges bursting at my feet, Light Fancy at my ...
"OH, queen of dreams! 'tis now the hour, Thy fav'rite hour of silence and of sleep; Come, bring thy wand, ...
"OH thou! the musing, wakeful pow'r, That lov'st the silent, midnight hour, Thy lonely vigils then to keep, And banish ...
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 ...
Why art thou chang'd? O Phaon! tell me why? Love flies reproach, when passion feels decay; Or, I would paint ...
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