Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King (Matthew Prior Poems)
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Whatever comes out of the heart is effectiveIt has no wings but has the power of flightIt has holy origins, ...
The story of King Arthur old is very memorable,The number of his valiant knights, and roundness of his Table.The knights ...
At length the great decisive Year is come,And Britain triumphs o'er the Wiles of Rome,No more in Frowns our Holy ...
Hail to the Man, whom sacred thirst of FameAmongst the stars enroll'd a shining Name!In whose great Soul Apollo fix'd ...
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,The tenants they extirpate or oppress,And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,Which the right ...
OUR ears had grown familiar with"Mr. Money" and "Mr. Smith"When, in the war's first anxious hour,Bellona, thy transmuting power,That we ...
At nothing, Harmsworth? Nothing?Once againOne wants to plead, though one must plead in vain,That you would condescend to clearer terms."Nothing" ...
"Dreamers?" Ah, no! else he was a dreamer, Our crucified brother of long, long ago;Arrested, and jeered at; "seditious;" "blasphemer;" And legally ...
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy,And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy;For ...
In vain, Orinda on my Aid,And weaker Judgment you rely;Too rashly Fair--one, you perswadeA Mortal to correct the Sky.To me, ...
O, ye Athenians, drunken with self-praise, What dreams I had of you, beside the sea, In far ...
Red gayety possessed her lips.She did not know her eyesMade revelry seditious, calling"Lies ... lies ... lies!"(Edith Mirick)
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
The Way to know the Bobolink From every other Bird Precisely as the Joy of him -- Obliged to be ...
It's Wednesday, September 6th and a birthday, again, these things arrive tediously on time with wry regularity - and sadly, ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
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