The Universe (Henry Baker Poems)
A POEM. Intended to restrain the Pride of Man.Thy Works, Eternal Power by whom she sings!The Muse attempts, and tunes ...
A POEM. Intended to restrain the Pride of Man.Thy Works, Eternal Power by whom she sings!The Muse attempts, and tunes ...
Hail sacred Peace, who claim'st thy bright abode,Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God.Before his arm, around the ...
Bees.See Labour.Of all the mute Creation, These aloneA public Weal, and common Int'rest know,Imbody'd: and subsist by certain Laws.Mindful of ...
Another hero of those youthful yearsReturns, as Noey Bixler's name appears.And Noey--if in any special way--Was notably good-natured.--Work or playHe ...
Say, Tyrant Custom, why must we obeyThe impositions of thy haughty Sway;From the first dawn of Life, unto the Grave,Poor ...
WHILE Phoebus did our summer arbours cheer,And joys Autumnal crown'd our circling year;Even then my thoughts to you excursions made,And ...
(Lord) in my Creede I find it not, That Thou dids't downe to Limbo goe: The Scripture mentions no such grotte, Though thy ...
IS't true? or does some magic spellMy wond'ring eyes beguile ?Is this the place where deigns to dwellThe honour of ...
Look how the lark soars upward and is gone,Turning a spirit as he nears the sky!His voice is heard, but ...
HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,By storms unruffled and unstain'd by tears:Wing'd by new joys may each white ...
Deah Ladies, - Let me wawn you, theah are feahful taimes to come,And a mos" ter-ific strugge is at hand; ...
First Song:So many years I sought you, Mary--In gardens, rooms, cities and mountains,In dumps, whores, in acting schools,In sick beds ...
Calcutta beckons meIn familiar names,Calls me close in the midst of anonymous crowdOn an intense, familiar bent,I fall back on ...
The little old man with the curve in his backAnd the eyes that are dim and the skin that is ...
The Lion and the Unicorn Of England's Coat-of-ArmsSeldom make bold, so we are told, To ravage English farms.In fact, 'tis ...
To operas and balls my cousins take me,And fond of plays my new-made friend would make me.In summer season, when ...
It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit along the straight road that ends at the Hippodrome and ...
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going-North and South excursions making, ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
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