On the Ruins of a Country Inn (Philip Freneau Poem)
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie A temple once to Bacchus rose, Beneath whose roof, aspiring high, Full many a ...
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie A temple once to Bacchus rose, Beneath whose roof, aspiring high, Full many a ...
Nil mortalibus ardui est Caelum ipsum petimus stultitia Horace FROM Persian looms the silk he wove No Weaver meant should ...
THE turtle on yon withered bough, That lately mourned her murdered mate, Has found another comrade now-- Such changes all ...
ALL that we see, about, abroad, What is it all, but nature's God? In meaner works discovered here No less ...
Emporers and kings! in vain you strive Your torments to conceal-- The age is come that shakes your thrones, Tramples ...
Though skilled in Latin and in Greek, And earning fifty cents a week, Such knowledge, and the income, too, Should ...
WHERE the pheasant roosts at night, Lonely, drowsy, out of sight, Where the evening breezes sigh Solitary, there stray I. ...
In spite of all the learn'd have said; I still my old opinion keep, The posture, that we give the ...
Thou born to sip the lake or spring, Or quaff the waters of the stream, Why hither come on vagrant ...
Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood The glory of its native wood, By storms destroyed, or length of ...
Under General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781 AT Eutaw Springs the valiant ...
GOD save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings so dear: Let them be spread around ...
A HERMIT'S house beside a stream With forests planted round, Whatever it to you may seem More real happiness I ...
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honied blossoms blow, Unseen thy ...
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