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 ...
Elizabeth Bentley Poems on Soul (38 Poems)
Ode To Melancholy (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
The Virtues. An Ode. (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHAT angel forms, attired in robes of light,Pour their effulgence on my raptur'd sight?Th' ethereal VIRTUES! lo! the radiant band!Appal'd, ...
Ode To Mirth (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
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 ...
Ode To Tranquillity (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O! where, thou friend of mortals, say,Dost thou thy placid charms display?Thou with Innocence art join'd,Empress of the spotless mind.Thy ...
Ode To Happiness (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O THOU! who dwell'st in heav'n alone,Whose beams surround th' Omniscient's throne,'Tis by his just decrees denied,That thou with mortals ...
On The Beauties Of Creation (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
AH! what enchanting scenes the eye beholds,When Spring her tender buds unfolds,To meet the rising blush of morn,And smiling green ...
The Pleasures Of The Mind (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
IN Life's first dawn, ere Reason's rayRising sheds the promis'd day,Gay Novelty officious flies,With mantle dipt in heav'nly dies;Trifles than ...
Ode To Music (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O MUSIC! soul-enchanting nymph, advance,Thro' magic maze to guide the measur'd dance,Or aid the tremulous voice,When fired with Nature's charms ...
Rural & Friendly Pleasures (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
A TRUCE with life's tumultuous cares,Fled from the world's entangling snares,Let rural joys the mind unbend:Where sportive Health delighted roves,Mid ...
On The Death Of William Drake, Jun. Esq. (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
Late MEMBER for AMERSHAM, BUCKS. HOW does the voice of woe, in accents wild,To wound the list'ning ear sad sounds ...
A Tribute To Friendship (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DECEASED FRIEND,MRS. SUCKLING,WIFE of ROBERT SUCKLING, Esq. of WOODTON HALL, Norfolk. ARE these sad ...
The Rural Walk (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHEN Solitude's calm voice invites,To taste her pure, unmix'd delights,What can in charms the rural scene surpass?While yet moist Morn's ...
On The Renewal Of Virtuous Friendship In A Future State (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
IF, when the Spirit quits her clay-built cell,With incorporeal essences to dwell,Attachments form'd on earth their force retain,And with increasing ...
Ode To Solitude (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O thou, each Muse's dearest friend,Pensive Solitude, attend;With musing thought and steadfast eye,All is peace when thou art nigh;Parent of ...
On The Approach Of Winter (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
HOW soon the verdant months are past!The branches bend with snow,And keenly beats the chilling blastOn bleak November's brow.Thus fleeting ...
On Then Death Of The Princess Charlotte Of Wales (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
AND is that beauteous Star eclips'd in night,Which late in Brunswick's constellation shone?Whose rays with mild effulgence beam'd so bright,And ...
To Hope (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O thou! advance, whose heav'nly lightCan make each scene of sadness please;On future bliss can fix the sight,And anguish change ...
Ode To Memory (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O, MEMORY! thou, whose silent hand,With magic influence can commandTo life each vanish'd hour;'Tis thine to bid deep Thought surveyThe ...
Prosperity And Adversity (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
PROSPERITY, with glitt'ring charms,Invites her vot'ries to her arms,In Pleasure's silken robes array'd;Of Folly's cup she bids them drink,Oft lures ...
The Prospect Of Plenty (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
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, ...
On Eternity (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
ETERNITY! how dread thy sound!It strikes with sacred awe profound;Can I thy theme pursue?What thoughts sublime thy name conveys,What prospects ...
The Pleasures Of True Religion (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
RELIGION! fairest child of Heav'n,Why art thou drawn with brow austere?Sweet cherub guide to mortals giv'n,Why clad in frowns severe?Thy ...
On A Winter Evening (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
CLAD in a fog, dim Evening draws around, Adieu, thou cold, short space, a winter's day;Now chilling damp o'erspreads the ...
On The Norfolk And Norwich Hospital (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
See where yon spacious structure meets the eye!When, wing'd with zeal, intent on mortals' good,Fair Charity, first offspring of the ...
The Triumph Of Hope (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
THO' yet the clouds portentous low'r,The winds have hush'd their concert rude;Well suits the calm, the silent show'r,With Meditation's pensive ...
On The Death Of Mr. Bassett (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHEN Heav'n the soul requires, not florid youth,Nor Nature's gilts, by Art improv'd, can save;Yon awful knell proclaims the solemn ...
On The Death Of A Young Lady (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
SCARCE the sad tomb on one loved child had closed,Nor had the parents' bosoms ceas'd to bleed;A soften'd calmness had ...
A Morning In August (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
THE sun ascends a cloudless sky,The moistening dews before him fly;How sweet to pace the fields at dawn,This mild, serene, ...
Stanzas On The New Year (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
HAIL, infant Year! my waking eyeWith rapture meets thy dawn;Hope, fairest offspring of the sky,Illumes thy cloudless morn.Vexation hence! and ...