On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
On the Banks of the Severn a desperate Maid (Whom some Shepherd, neglecting his Vows, had betray'd,) Stood resolving to ...
Your picture smiles as first it smiled, The ring you gave is still the same, Your letter tells, O changing ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...
My Fair, if thou wilt register my love, A world of volumes shall thereof arise; Preserve my tears, and thou ...
Cupid Conjured Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack To wound her heart, whose eyes have wounded me, ...
Yet read at last the story of my woe, The dreary abstracts of my endless cares, With my life's sorrow ...
You brave heroic minds, Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue, Go, and subdue, Whilst loit'ring hinds Lurke here ...
SINCE there 's no help, come let us kiss and part-- Nay, I have done, you get no more of ...
Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part, Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot A constant habit; that when I would not ...
It did not surprise me -- So I said -- or thought -- She will stir her pinions And the ...
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine, Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine! Oh the Earth ...
We reflect this day on the essence of intimacy, from its origins in the spring-tide of youth to an afterward ...
Do I really love you? So let me guess, you'll think I'm easy prey if I say, okay I do ...
WOE is me to tell it thee, Winter winds in Arcady! Scattered is thy flock and fled From the glades ...
Every so often he vows to start a better life. But when night comes with her own counsels, with her ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
1 Star that bringest home the bee, 2 And sett'st the weary labourer free! 3 If any star shed peace, ...
Star that bringest home the bee, And sett'st the weary labourer free! If any star shed peace, 'tis thou, That ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
So it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh ...
So it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
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