Fingal – Book Vi (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT.Night comes on. Fingal gives a feast to his army, at which Swaran is present. The king commands Ullin his ...
ARGUMENT.Night comes on. Fingal gives a feast to his army, at which Swaran is present. The king commands Ullin his ...
Sinner.What black, what ugly crawling thing art thou?Spider.I am a spider-------Sinner.A spider, ay, also a filthy creature.Spider.Not filthy as thyself ...
Strong pinions bore Safi, the dreamer, Through the dazzle and whirl of a race,And the earth, raying up in confusion, Like a ...
(Strophe)Poor World! that in wickedness liest Enthrall'd by the powers of ill,And, groaning and travailing, sighest For better and happier still,-- Lo! here ...
The moonlight falls the softestIn Kentucky;The summer days come oftestIn Kentucky;Friendship is the strongest,Love's light glows the longest;Yet, wrong is ...
POOR little solitary thing!Why fliest thou all alone?Why follow our vessel with ceaseless wing?Why seek the torrid zone?There are no ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Entreat me not, I must not hear,Mark but this sorrow-beaming tear;Thy answer's written deeply nowOn this ...
Sweet star, which gleaming o'er the darksome sceneThrough fleecy clouds of silvery radiance fliest,Spanglet of light on evening's shadowy veil,Which ...
How fast thou fliest, O time, on loves swift wings,To hopes of joy, that flatters our desire:Which to a Lover ...
Where a bright creek into the river's sideShoots its keen arrow, a green heron sitsWatching the sunfish as it gleaming ...
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I ...
(A Response to Judge Mulligan's Famous Toast.) The moonlight may be softest In Kentucky, And summer ...
MY beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by With thy proudly arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye; ...
A spieler came to Yarra Glen upon the Yarra flats;He wore a suit of noisy cheeks and something cute in ...
I, like thy shadow, am a part of thee. In vain thou fliest: the level desert plain-- The ragged peak, ...
O TIME, that fliest on never-failing wings, Consuming years, consuming memory, Consuming strength, and bringing vain regrets For lost delight ...
I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I ...
Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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