The Protestant Session (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
At length the great decisive Year is come,And Britain triumphs o'er the Wiles of Rome,No more in Frowns our Holy ...
At length the great decisive Year is come,And Britain triumphs o'er the Wiles of Rome,No more in Frowns our Holy ...
LXVI'True labour in the vineyard of thy Lord,Ere prime thou hast the imposed day-work done,What armies conquered, perished with thy ...
LANGUAGE is slow. The mastery of wantsDoth teach it to the infant, drop by drop,As brooklets gather.Years of studious toilUnfold ...
This motley piece to you I send,Who always were a faithful friend;Who, if disputes should happen hence,Can best explain the ...
What wor it made me love thee, lass? Aw connot tell;Aw know it worn't for thi brass;-- Tho' poor miselAw'd moor nor ...
Who were the twain that trod this trackSo many times togetherHither and back,In spells of certain and uncertain weather?Commonplace in ...
O give me speech! companionship I ask With my own kind: my soul is sick of books, And longs with passionate longing ...
YE poets of our transient poverty!Weak strengths that pour sick passions into song!Who finding right struck dumb, enthrone a wrong,And ...
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
I.OF all the joys that brighten suffering earth, What joy is welcomed like a new-born child? What life so wretched, ...
The idle winds at dawn that strayedThro' wavy depths of joyous shade,The early chirp of breeze-swung boughs,The carol of the ...
Hi, it's a funny world! This mornin' when I wokeI saw red robin on the fence, an' heard the words ...
Astrea, eldest born of Jove, Whom all the gods revere and love, Was sent, while man deserv'd their care, On ...
IORDER is a lovely thing; On disarray it lays its wing, Teaching simplicity to sing. It has a meek and ...
It was the fairest and the sweetest scene--The freshest, sunniest, smiling land that e'erHeld o'er the waves its arms of ...
In the old capital they stood, With yellow fox-furs plain, Their manners all correct and good, Speech free ...
Not solitarily in fields we findEarth's secret open, though one page is there;Her plainest, such as children spell, and shareWith ...
Not all the brilliant beauties I have seen,Mid the gay splendors of some Southern hall,In jewelled grandeur, or in plainest ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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