On the Prospect of Peace (Thomas Tickell Poems)
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
Weep!--for the wrath of God is over us!Weep!--for his arm is lifted to destroy!Famine hath thinned the land! in Autumn's ...
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
I KNOW a little patch of mountain ground.Low-settled by itself; and MoosilaukeStands boldly in the west but never seesIts little ...
THE sun is up, Great God, the sun is up,High o'er the eastern hill among white cloudsInsufferable! I thank Thee ...
Prithee, dear Nick, thy wicked Life amend,And take the Counsel of thy nearest Friend:No more, presumptuous Boy, with impious airs,Prefer ...
YE seem intent to stand aloneMonarchs, ye men, of stock and stone;The forest dead and everywhereUntenanted the fields of air.To ...
A SENTIMENTThis "sentiment" was read on the same occasion as the "Family Record,"which immediately follows it. The latter poem is ...
Here's flowery taffeta for Mary's new gown: Here's black velvet, all the rage, for Dick's birthday coat.Pearly buttons for you, Mary, ...
THIS, Woodstock, is my gift; and if I giveSo much as this of all thou gavest me,Call me not selfish ...
Ask not the Cause why all the tuneful Swains, Who us'd to fill the Vales with tender Strains, In deep ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
on years, on the dance of whispers. where have we gone when the merry pranksters painted the soul of a ...
It was in the days of a gay British King (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making) The Palace of ...
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