To an ingenious young Gentleman, on his dedicating a Poem to the Author. (Mather Byles Poems)
To you, dear Youth, whom all the Muses own,And great Apollo speaks his darling Son,To you the Muse directs her ...
To you, dear Youth, whom all the Muses own,And great Apollo speaks his darling Son,To you the Muse directs her ...
INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WAN-DERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALLAT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TOBE VISITED ...
WHILE Morcham does your much lov'd presence share,And Lydia's health claims your maternal care,O Madam, deign with candour to peruseA ...
NOW from before Aurora's rays,Stern darkness with its horror flies;The mountain tops begin to blaze,And Phoebus gilds the eastern skies.See ...
DEAR sir, accept this missive sentFrom one whose mind's sincerely bent,On ever acting so with you,As shall evince her friendship ...
AS round the room, with tentless speed,Young Delia tripp'd it finely,A looking-glass, so Fate decreed,She broke, but not design'dly.A looking-glass ...
Oh from thy Radient Throne above Look down on me, Great God of love With sacred Light my Soul infuse, And wing, for ...
TO you my fair, the empress of my heart,I'm urg'd to vent my pure, untainted flame;Tho' language faintly can my ...
As Phebus bricht in speir merediane,E of the warld, and lamp Etheriall,Passis the licht that cleipit is Dyane,Quhen scho is ...
Only a Leather Medal, hanging there on the wall, Dingy and frayed and faded, dusty and worn and old; Yet ...
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