On My Dear Father’s Thirty-Eighth Birthday (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.OH ! come from classic scenes, and sylvan glades,Ye sportive nymphs who tune Parnassian lyres,Attend my lays, ye bright celestial ...
1.OH ! come from classic scenes, and sylvan glades,Ye sportive nymphs who tune Parnassian lyres,Attend my lays, ye bright celestial ...
'Twas in a cool Aonian glade,The wanton Cupid, spent with toil,Had sought refreshment from the shade,And stretch'd him on the ...
Ill-fated maid, in whose unhappy trainChill poverty and misery are seen,Anguish and discontent, the unhappy baneOf life, and blackener of ...
(TERCENTENARY, 1608-1908)What need of votive VerseTo strew thy _Laureat Herse_With that mix'd _Flora_ of th' _Aonian Hill_?Or _Mincian_ vocall Reed,That ...
Melodious Arethusa, o'er my verseShed thou once more the spirit of thy stream:Who denies verse to Gallus? So, when thouGlidest ...
Hail glorious Off-spring of a glorious Race!Britannia's other Hope, and blooming Grace!Thou smil'st already on the burnish'd Shield,And thy weak ...
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
O ponder well, ye serving Maids, The doleful Tale I sing: Learn how disastrous 'tis to wear Too high your ...
Mr. Inkle to Mrs. Dinah Inkle, at Glocester Containing A slight Sketch of a travel'd Man--Continuation of the Ball--An Affair ...
OR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE. Illustrious fathers of the human race, Of you, the song of your ...
Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song,To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong.The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades,The dreams of ...
Miller, whom fair Ierne bore To grace Britannia's happier shore, Whose Genius guides, whose counsel guards The labours of Bathonian ...
CANTO I. Hush'd be the envious tongues that dare Bright --- to profane Thy hallow'd shades, where science fair Has ...
With every plague that can conspire To curse a wretched country squire, Six hundred sheep on fields at Kneeton Starv'd ...
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps doth die; And this ...
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps doth die; And this security, It is ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
Prepare your wreaths, Aonian maids divine, To strew the tranquil bed where I shall sleep; In tears, the myrtle and ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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