On The Abolition Of The African Slave-Trade (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHAT blest design in Albion's Council moves,Which earth with pleasure views, and heav'n approves?'Tis a design humanely just and kind,Worthy ...
WHAT blest design in Albion's Council moves,Which earth with pleasure views, and heav'n approves?'Tis a design humanely just and kind,Worthy ...
LO! what descending cherub, robed in light,With dazzling beams o'erwhelms the sight?Is it a Genius of th' etherial spheres?Or Angel ...
YOUTHFUL Queen of sportive pleasures,Wake thy lute to airy measures;Tripping o'er the gayest green,Deck'd with roses, thou art seen,And every ...
BY Summer's hand profusely drest,Here Nature in her gayest vest,Salutes th' attentive view;What graces this bright spot adorn!Here colours radiant ...
AH! what enchanting scenes the eye beholds,When Spring her tender buds unfolds,To meet the rising blush of morn,And smiling green ...
NYMPH of the joy-diffusing smile,The soft, endearing mien;Whose looks the heaviest grief beguile,And chear the gloomiest scene;May ev'ry Muse her ...
COME, thou, who art by all pursu'd;Art thou with magic pow'rs endu'd,To charm each woe, each bliss impart,Fill with delight ...
TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DECEASED FRIEND,MRS. SUCKLING,WIFE of ROBERT SUCKLING, Esq. of WOODTON HALL, Norfolk. ARE these sad ...
WHAT are the choicest blessings heav'n bestows?Or mortal man through life's short journey knows?Sure Health and Liberty combin'd may formThat ...
THE storms seem fled, the Sun's warm beamDarts chearful o'er the sparkling stream,And melts in tears the gelid snow,Stern Winter ...
BRITANNIA's sons, once more rejoice,Let jocund mirth your cares dispel;Be it proclaim'd with cheerful voice,Each tongue the glad'ning tidings tell.Your ...
THE Mind, from Reason's earliest ray,Till freed from her imprisoning clay,Her every power employs,The aerial form of Happiness to gain,But ...
HARK! the glad horn's sonorous strain,Responsive to the shouting swain,Proclaims the harvest o'er;The master of the field stands by,And views ...
YE sons of men! with reverence bowBefore th' Almighty's throne!With adoration's hallow'd glow;His ceaseless goodness own:Obedient to his dread controul,Famine, ...
AH! Summer, why so long delay'dThy wonted influence? Why afraidThy laughing face to shew?Instead of full prolific beams,Thy countenance but ...
YE sons of British heroes,Who've fought in Glory's field,Shall ye to Gallic boastersYour laurels ever yield?With rage and envy franticAgainst ...
THOU, whose mild radiance all adore,O let not human-kind deploreThe loss of thy propitious smile:Why, Goddess, in such wild affright,Wilt ...
RESPECTED Lady! whilst thy heartStill feels the recent wound,Some solace might the Muse impart,Or breath one soothing sound!Though early mingled ...
LORD of the year! whose word commandsThe seasons o'er what favour'd landsTo shed profuse their stores;Or where to turn the ...
'TIS done! the Despot's reign is o'er,The kingdoms freed, shall groan no moreBeneath his impious sway;Who, rais'd by the Almighty's ...
AS thou in Sion praise did'st hear,O! God, in Britain now,An altar to thy name we rear,And pay the grateful ...
UNUSUALLY alert, young SpringIs stretching wide her purple wing,To renovate the Earth;Already o'er our wint'ry IsleShe sheds her joy-diffusing smile,And ...
AUTUMN with solemn step draws near,Sober evening of the year;When the trees are half embrown'd,And falling leaves bestrew the ground.What ...
WHEN young Imagination fires the soulWith her ideal prospects of delight,And soaring scorns grave Reason's sage controul,Quick thou pursu'st and ...
FROM all the ties of fond endearment torn,In vain earth's bands th' immortal mind would hold;Tho' flattering hope in youth's ...
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