Song of Thyrsis (Philip Freneau Poem)
THE turtle on yon withered bough, That lately mourned her murdered mate, Has found another comrade now-- Such changes all ...
THE turtle on yon withered bough, That lately mourned her murdered mate, Has found another comrade now-- Such changes all ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
A FAMOUS painter, jealous of his wife; Whose charms he valued more than fame or life, When going on a ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Why was that baleful Creature made, Which seeks our Quiet to invade, And screams ill Omens through the Shade? 'Twas, ...
CUPID one day ask'd his Mother, When she meant that he shou'd Wed? You're too Young, my Boy, she said: ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
THE Queen of Birds, t'encrease the Regal Stock, Had hatch'd her young Ones in a stately Oak, Whose Middle-part was ...
Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The poster with my picture on it Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office. I stand by ...
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
I speak to you across cities I speak to you across plains My mouth is upon your pillow Both faces ...
Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own; For sure our souls ...
I know Suspense -- it steps so terse And turns so weak away -- Besides -- Suspense is neighborly When ...
Have any like Myself Investigating March, New Houses on the Hill descried -- And possibly a Church -- That were ...
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House, As lately as Today -- I know it, by the numb look ...
Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost Candies the ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
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