The Necessity And Use Of Affliction (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
SAY, would the teeming earth its treasures yield,Or grateful plenty crown the smiling field,If bright'ning suns unceasing warm'd the plain,And ...
SAY, would the teeming earth its treasures yield,Or grateful plenty crown the smiling field,If bright'ning suns unceasing warm'd the plain,And ...
Sphinx was a monster that would eatWhatever stranger she could get,Unless his ready wit disclosedThe subtile riddle she proposed.OEdipus was ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. Serious Reflections of Mr. B---n---r---d.--His Bill of Expences.-- The Distresses ...
Once on a time a friend of mine prevailed on me to go To see the dazzling splendors of a ...
AriaThe tiresome winter now is goneThe day so short, the night so longAt gentle paceDo change their face,Now must dark ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea;They clambered and rollicked in ...
In sea and air, in leaf and stone, Where'er Truth's magic words are writ,Where thousands throng, or rapt and ...
Oh Lord, when all our bones are thrust Beyond the gaze of all but Thine; And these blaspheming tongues are ...
If we don't or if we do. What's the odds to me and you? Fame is e'er a heartless jade, ...
The many sow, but only the chosen reap; Happy the wretched host if Day be brief, That with the cool ...
If echoes from the fitful past Could rise to mental view,Would all their fancied radiance lastOr would some odors ...
By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass That only a Colonel from Chatham can ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
Service, in the small things without frills and trappings of power no prestige must accrue to be faithful to God's ...
To accrue, or not to accrue That is the question, Whether to recognize the income The deduction, now, Or on ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Rather arid delight If Contentment accrue Make an abstemious Ecstasy Not so good as joy -- But Rapture's Expense Must ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
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