Praise and Prayer (Sir William Davenant Poems)
PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice;Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord ...
PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice;Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord ...
I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away,Whose life to mine is an eternal law,A piece of nature that can ...
Several Figur'd Atomes well agreeing,When joyn'd do give another Figure being.For as those Figures joyned, severall waies,The Fabrick of each ...
THE RIVAL SUITORSWainamoinen, old and truthful,Long considered, long debated,How to woo and win the daughterOf the hostess of Pohyola,How to ...
The woefull lamentation of Jane Shore, a goldsmith's wife in London, sometime king Edward IV. his concubine. To the tune ...
Truth"God speed you, ancient father, And give you a good daye;What is the cause, I praye you,So sadly here you ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, ...
AN ODE(By a Western Spinning Dervish)I SPIN, I spin, around, around, And close my eyes, And let the ...
The little church of Long Ago, where as a boy I satWith mother in the family pew and fumbled with ...
WHY, let is run! who bids it stay? Let us the while be merry; Time there in water creeps away, ...
CFor life and death to me are so akin, So aptly one suggests the other's being; So quickly treads behind ...
Standing in the river swirling around them far more than water the fate of humankind Standing in the river hesitantly ...
Earnest, nodding heads a trio of repentant souls agreeing with the restated rule, after cleaning the debris, the drying eyes, ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
There was a man in New York City (His name was George Adolphus Knight) So soft of heart he wept ...
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys ...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten ...
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