Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto III (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Meanwhile at the declining Noon of Night,When gentle Sleep had veil'd each Mortal's Sight;With balmy Dews the smiling Pastures weep,Torrents ...
Meanwhile at the declining Noon of Night,When gentle Sleep had veil'd each Mortal's Sight;With balmy Dews the smiling Pastures weep,Torrents ...
To Thee, my Snape, in these Reforming Times,Grateful, we send our Blessing and our Rimes.Odd it may seem for Us, ...
The Worldling Churchman, raging with Defeat,Renews his Hate, and burns with double Heat.Tho' foil'd in Synod, he laments the DayThat ...
Sir,As once a twelvemonth to the priest,Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,The Spanish king presents a jennetTo show his love, -- ...
As I sate down to breakfast in state,At my living of Tithing-cum-Boring,With Betty beside me to wait,Came a rap that ...
As I sate down to breakfast in state,At my living of Tithing-cum-Boring,With Betty beside me to wait,Came a rap that ...
E'er the sixth Age the Christian Faith decreas'd,And stubborn Errors spread o'er all the East;The Judas Priest, debauch'd with sensual ...
I have no hopes, the Duke he says, and dies.In sure and certain hopes — the prelate cries:Of these two ...
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
Our Mr. Jiggs was certainly an estimable youth,A pillar of propriety, a champion of truth;He had a good position in ...
Who are these blokes with bulging brows I see all o'er the shop?The layman asked. "Them's scientists," Replied the courteous ...
Sweetly solemn see them stand, Spinning churns on either hand, Neatly capped and aproned white Airy fairy dairy sight. Jersey ...
Why — can anybody say? —Has upon my natal dayNothing ever taken placeOf importance to the race?Why has no one ...
When all that matters shall be written downAnd the long record of our years is told,Where sham, like flesh, must ...
LIXIf I am never merry when my brow Aches with the pressure of this laurel crown; And looks severe, and ...
A primrose by a river's brim_Primula vulgaris_ was to him, And it was nothing more;A pansy, delicately reared,_Viola tricolor_ appeared ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
It hurts my pride that I should be The issue of a night of lust; Yet even Bishops, you'll agree, ...
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