Sonnet V: On Life (David Humphreys Poems)
Ere we can think of time—the moment's past—And straight another since that thought began:So swift each instant mingles with the ...
Ere we can think of time—the moment's past—And straight another since that thought began:So swift each instant mingles with the ...
Of Being is a Bird The likest to the Down An Easy Breeze do put afloat The General Heavens -- ...
The Moon was but a Chin of Gold A Night or two ago -- And now she turns Her perfect ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we ...
Virtue, alas, now let me take some rest. Thou set'st a bate between my soul and wit. If vain love ...
Ah whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
LOng-while I sought to what I might compare those powrefull eies, which lighte my dark spright, yet find I nought ...
AH whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
Sister and mother and diviner love, And of the sisterhood of the living dead Most near, most clear, and of ...
The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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, ...
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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