Prologue To Tancred And Sigismunda (James Thomson Poems)
Bold is the man! who, in this nicer age,Presumes to tread the chaste corrected stage.Now, with gay tinsel arts, we ...
Bold is the man! who, in this nicer age,Presumes to tread the chaste corrected stage.Now, with gay tinsel arts, we ...
When Israel heard the fiery law,From Sinai's top proclaimed;Their hearts seemed full of holy awe,Their stubborn spirits tamed.Yet, as forgetting ...
Sometimes I am transfigur'd to a saint, And seeme like those who mett upon Mount Tabor; And then againe My Soule through ...
Infinite consanguinity it bearsThis tendered theme of you that lightRetrieves from sea plains where the skyResigns a breast that every ...
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad tine,Which late ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
1.FROM thine, as then, the healing virtue goesInto our hearts—that is the Father's plan.From heart to heart it sinks, it ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe;Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! Bearing ...
Our poet has never as yet Esteemed it proper or fit To detain you ...
It was the fairest and the sweetest scene--The freshest, sunniest, smiling land that e'erHeld o'er the waves its arms of ...
THE Mind, from Reason's earliest ray,Till freed from her imprisoning clay,Her every power employs,The aerial form of Happiness to gain,But ...
120If this is "fading"Oh let me immediately "fade"!If this is "dying"Bury me, in such a shroud of red!If this is ...
Down through the tomb's inward arch He has shouldered out into Limbo to gather them, dazed, from dreamless slumber: the ...
Until thy feet have trod the Road Advise not wayside folk, Nor till thy back has borne the Load Break ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
If this is "fading" Oh let me immediately "fade"! If this is "dying" Bury me, in such a shroud of ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe; Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! ...
Lesbia hath a beaming eye, But no one knows for whom it beameth; Right and left its arrows fly, But ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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