A Portrait (Richard Brinsley Sheridan Poems)
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
I.If rightly tuneful bards decide,If it be fix'd in love's decrees,That beauty ought not to be triedBut by its native ...
.Lo! Spring, array'd in primrose-colour'd robe,Fresh beauties sheds on each enliven'd scene,With show'rs and sunshine cheers the smiling globe,And mantles ...
IF rightly tuneful bards decide,If it be fix'd in Love's decrees,That Beauty ought not to be triedBut by its native ...
Ah ! bright is the blush on the cheek of the Morning, Behold how its presence enlivens the sky,But pale are ...
In vain, alas! poor Strephon triesTo ease his tortured breast,Since Amoret the cure denies,And makes his pain a jest.Ah! fair ...
Uncommon Charms, I plainly see,Compleat the Fair for Tyranny.Then, lest your Form should make you vainOf Conquest, and of giving ...
Rose of Lancaster.* * * * *Encircled by a blooming bandOf peerless damsels, fair and young,Reclined yon canopy beneath,How bright ...
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
WHY glide the hours so swift away,When love and fortune shine?Years seem'd but as a passing day,When Amoret was mine.Was ...
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE Contayning THE LEGENDE OF BRITOMARTIS OR OF CHASTITIECANTO VI The birth of faire ...
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