Almeda And Flavia (Janet Little Poems)
FLAVIA.WHILE dusky shades eclipse the solar ray,And fanning zephyrs 'mong the branches play,Where varied beauties deck the verdant groves,Let us ...
FLAVIA.WHILE dusky shades eclipse the solar ray,And fanning zephyrs 'mong the branches play,Where varied beauties deck the verdant groves,Let us ...
INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WAN-DERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALLAT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TOBE VISITED ...
'TWAS on a gloomy sombre night,When clust'ring clouds had form'dInto a mass so densely thick,That Nature seem'd appall'd!The whistling winds ...
Think how welcome dawns AURORAOn the weary trav'ller's eyes;Think how lovely PHOEBUS rises,And adorns the eastern skies:Full as welcome, and ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)As he spoke, he beheld on the sea-beaten strandA form,'twas so airy, so light,He could almost ...
ARMEDA.WHY dost thou Sylvia pensive sit?Why hangs that cloud upon thy brow?Oft hast thou cheer'd us by thy wit,Why thus ...
WHEN Adam was in spacious Eden plac'd,Where rural sweets luxuriant did abound,All that could charm the eye or please the ...
TO SEE J----. H----. ESQ.'S CHILD.IS it true! does Alonzo from London proposeA visit to Scotia's bleak plain,Ere the beams ...
A TALE, FROM MARMONTEL'S INCAS OF PERUWHEN o'er the western world IBERIA'S bandsWith blood and rapine stain'd their guilty hands;When ...
MISFORTUNE'S stings transfix the purest heart,And souls, unknown to guilt, with anguish smart.Not virtue can secure the good man's state,Nor ...
HAPPY the land, round which the ocean flows,Whose ebbing waves its fertile soil compose.The shepherd fearless leads his flocks to ...
FRAGEMENT I_Il faut mettre ceci dans la bouche du po?te (qui n'est pas moi)_: Le po?te divin, tout esprit, tout ...
Of the soft flowing stream, And muse upon its gentle tide, We'll roam along the flowery side In many a ...
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at ...
Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov'd recollection Embitters the present, compar'd with the past; Where science first dawn'd on ...
Author Note: The story of the following ballad was related to me, when a school boy, as a fact which ...
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