Poems about wide-spreading (21 Poems)
The Iliad: Book 12 (Homer Poems)
So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypyluswithin the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately,nor were the trench and the high wall above it, to keep the Trojans incheck longer. They had built … Continue reading
The Fan : A Poem. Book I. (John Gay Poems)
I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.Not the wide fan by Persian dames display’d,Which o’er their beauty casts a grateful shade;Nor that long known in China’s artful land,Which, while it cools the face, … Continue reading
How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery’s gloomy night.In every region of the earth, Oppression rules with iron power,And every man of sterling worth, Whose soul disdains to cringe, or … Continue reading
An Exhortation To Worship Our Lord Jesus Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
Come simple, come gentle, your sing-song give o’er, And let us for once be combin’d,On this happy day, our dear Lord to adore, And bear our Redeemer in mind. When first our Creator the protoplasts made, In Eden the couple he plac’d,Where o’er … Continue reading
The Naiad’s Complaint (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
MY native vale! with heighten’d pleasure stillI trace thy simple scenes, my partial eyeSurveys new beauties each returning spring,Each summer gives delight unfelt before!Thy fertile vales, thy green knolls gentle rise,Thy rocky hills with blossom’d furze adorn’d,Thy wood-fring’d rivers and … Continue reading
A Prayer For The Church (Rees Prichard Poems)
Support, O God! with thy Almighty aidThy glorious church, that fair wide-spreading vine,Which thy right hand has in thy vineyard laid(E’er since the birth of time) with art divine. Let not the forest-boar the plant unroot —Let not wild beasts, … Continue reading
On The Discoveries Of Captain Lewis (January 14, 1807) (Joel Barlow Poems)
Let the Nile cloak his head in the clouds, and defy The researches of science and time;Let the Niger escape the keen traveller’s eye, By plunging or changing his clime. Columbus! not so shall thy boundless domain Defraud thy brave sons of their … Continue reading
To a Lady on Her Coming to North-Americ (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Indulgent muse! my grov’ling mind inspire,And fill my bosom with celestial fire.See from Jamaica’s fervid shore she moves,Like the fair mother of the blooming loves,When from above the Goddess with her handFans the soft breeze, and lights upon the land;Thus … Continue reading
Disappointment (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Where wanders the beautiful Maid of my soul ?Where lingers the fair one with tresses of jet ?Behold o’er the vale how the grey-shadows roll,Behind yon dark cliff the last sun-beam has set. The star of the Evening in brightness … Continue reading
The Count Of Hapsburg (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
. At Aix-la-Chapelle, in imperial array, In its halls renowned in old story, At the coronation banquet so gay King Rudolf was sitting in glory. The meats were served … Continue reading