To the Stars (Erasmus Darwin Poems)
Roll on, ye starts! exult in youthful prime,Mark with bright curves the printless steps of time;Near and more near your ...
Roll on, ye starts! exult in youthful prime,Mark with bright curves the printless steps of time;Near and more near your ...
Hast thou not seen some captive birdImpatient flit within the wire,And seek the bliss of liberty,With anxious fond desire?Or hast ...
Now I am all One bowl of kisses, Such as the tall Slim votaresses Of Egypt filled For a God's ...
Some Wretched creature, savior take Who would exult to die And leave for thy sweet mercy's sake Another Hour to ...
Guns! far and near Quick, sudden, angry, They startle the still street, Upturned faces appear, Doors open on darkness, There ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
HOW pleasant the banks of the clear winding Devon, With green spreading bushes and flow'rs blooming fair! But the boniest ...
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy Sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from ...
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy Sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from ...
Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
1 O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
Pale, at its ghastly noon, Pauses above the death-still wood--the moon; The night-sprite, sighing, through the dim air stirs; The ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old, Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep? The Hellespont ...
Florence, rejoice! For thou o'er land and sea So spread'st thy pinions that the fame of thee Hath reached no ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
EXULT MY MUSE! exult to see Each envious, waspish, jealous thing, Around its harmless venom fling, And dart its powerless ...
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