Venus’ Runaway (Ben Jonson Poems)
Beauties, have ye seen this toy, Called Love, a little boy, Almost naked, wanton, blind; Cruel now, and then as ...
Beauties, have ye seen this toy, Called Love, a little boy, Almost naked, wanton, blind; Cruel now, and then as ...
TOGETHER at the altar we In vision oft were seen by thee, Thyself as bride, as bridegroom I. Oft from ...
All of this changing like a cascade of color all variations of greens from the brightest to the warmest alive ...
In our prayers, in stopping to give thanks certain to honor God, to whom we are thankful from whom all ...
The words of our forefathers, at the first Thanksgiving at the beginning of our nation in the midst of civil ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
'Tis done---and shivering in the gale The bark unfurls her snowy sail; And whistling o'er the bending mast, Loud sings ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
Christ dwells in heaven, but visits on earth. SS 6:1-3,12. When strangers stand and hear me tell What beauties in ...
To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind Habitual grace, and sentiments refin'd, Thus while you strive to mend the human heart, ...
Today my mother and sisters came to see me. I had been alone a long time with my poems, my ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
Argument. To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the Greeks to be a remedy for hopeless love, ...
THERE will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider ...
Venus! to thee, the Lesbian Muse shall sing, The song, which Myttellenian youths admir'd, when Echo, am'rous of the strain ...
WHEN fragrant gales and summer show'rs Call'd forth the sweetly scented flow'rs; When ripen'd sheaves of golden grain, Strew'd their ...
Ten years ago it seemed impossible That she should ever grow so calm as this, With self-remembrance in her warmest ...
Some singers sing of ladies' eyes, And some of ladies lips, Refined ones praise their ladylike ways, And course ones ...
When in death I shall calmly recline, O bear my heart to my mistress dear, Tell her it lived upon ...
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