An Ode – Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty’s Arms (Matthew Prior Poems)
When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,Abroad when dreaded, and beloved at home,He saw ...
When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,Abroad when dreaded, and beloved at home,He saw ...
FIRST of Devon's thousand streams--(Beside whose banks no poet dreams,Since to her praise old Drayton fram'dHis pastoral reed, yet scarcely ...
I. 1.The wise and great of every clime,Through all the spacious walks of Time,Where'er the Muse her power display'd,With joy ...
THIS is our place of meeting; oppositeThat towered and pillared building: look at it;King's Chapel in the Second George's day,Rebellion ...
Grey field of Flanders, grim old battle-plain,What armies held the iron line round Ypres in the rain,From Bixschoote to Baecelaere ...
Curst be that busy Wretch, that human Beast,(Some crafty Statesman or ambitious Priest)Who first his own pernicious Schemes to buildHis ...
Ye Commons and Peers, Pray lend me your ears,I'll sing you a song, (if I can,) How Lewis le Grand Was put to ...
Hat sight of woe thus harrows up my soul!Must those love-darting eyes in anguish roll?Shall ghastly death such charms divine ...
As the Chameleon, who is knownTo have no colours of his own,But borrows from his neighbour's hueHis white or black, ...
BLACKSOIL PLAINS were grey soil, grey soil in the drought.Fifteen years away, and five hundred miles out;Swag and bag and ...
Let others tell of far away, Of peoples strange and cities gay, Of mighty hills and rushing streams, More fair ...
(OMNIBUS WICCAMICIS)The green and grey and purple day is barred with clouds of dun,From Ypres city smouldering before the setting ...
The breath of God, a wind from heaven's throne, Like friendship's sweetness, and like pain's sharp strength, Outstretching mightily to ...
TELL me what prince, detested of mankind,By force of terror Magna Charta signed?Tell me what poet struck his sounding lyre,And ...
NOW, if I die, so be it. I have seen The towers of Lincoln soaring from the hill; Passed the ...
A boy was born at BethlehemThat knew the haunts of Galilee.He wandered on Mount Lebanon,And learned to love each forest ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed; the rising sun in war paint dyes us red; in broad daylight ...
Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning, I hog a whole house on Boston's ...
I have not brought my Odyssey With me here across the sea; But you'll remember, when I say How, when ...
Because there was no other place to flee to, I came back to the scene of the disordered senses, came ...
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