Written in Milton’s PARADISE LOST. (Mather Byles Poems)
Had I, O had I all the tuneful ArtsOf lofty Verse; did ev'ry Muse inspireMy flowing Numbers, and adorn my ...
Had I, O had I all the tuneful ArtsOf lofty Verse; did ev'ry Muse inspireMy flowing Numbers, and adorn my ...
Curst be that busy Wretch, that human Beast,(Some crafty Statesman or ambitious Priest)Who first his own pernicious Schemes to buildHis ...
Support, O God! with thy Almighty aidThy glorious church, that fair wide-spreading vine,Which thy right hand has in thy vineyard ...
1 O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light,2 What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last ...
Raised to account for the late return of a Messenger.The sun went down in wrath;The skies foam'd brass, and soon ...
Last Week in this Town was a furious Debate,Between two great Masters and Champions of State;Dread Havock ensued and most ...
Let the sublimer Muse, who wrapt in nightRides on the raven pennons of the storm,Or o'er the field with purple ...
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last ...
O! Johnson, learned, venerable shade, What havock of thy fame hath friendship made, What childish trophies round thy manly bust, ...
To brush the cheeks of Ladies fair, With genuine charms o'erspread, Their sapient beards with mickle care Our wise forefathers ...
Tune -- ANACREON IN HEAVEN O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
VAIN Love, why do'st thou boast of Wings, That cannot help thee to retire! When such quick Flames Suspicion brings, ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
AFAR 1 the illustrious Exile roams, Whom kingdoms on this day should hail; An inmate in the casual shed, On ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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