Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Philosophy – Place) (Henry Baker Poems)
Philosophy.Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws,Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause:Who, without Fear, his certain Fate can ...
Philosophy.Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws,Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause:Who, without Fear, his certain Fate can ...
Agriculture.--The Sire of Gods himselfWill'd not that Tillage should be free from Toil.He first sollicited the restive MoldBy Art: and ...
Let other bards with nobler talents sing The beauties of the mild, maturer spring. My rustic Muse on bleaker times must dwell, When ...
UNDER the fluent folds of needlework,Where Balkis prick'd the histories of kingsOnce great as he, that were as greatly loved,Solomon ...
From "A Sicilian Idyl"Weave the dance. and raise again the sacred chorus;Wreathe the garlands of the spring about the hair;Now ...
O thou who hast beneath Thy handThe dark foundations of the land,--The motion of whose ordered thoughtAn instant universe hath ...
Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids!Unlock ...
"Standing between the sun and moon preservesA certain secrecy. Or seems to keepSomething inviolate if only thatHis father was an ...
Beyond the gates of Hercules The seven builders took the stone, Spurned everywhere in days of ease, Long lying loose ...
(To Peary and his men, before the last expedition)Why sing the legends of the Holy Grail,The dead crusaders of the ...
MY piazza, my piazza! some boast their lordly halls,Where soften'd gleams of curtain'd light on golden treasure falls,Where pictures in ...
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires ...
Purged, with the life they left, of allThat makes life paltry and mean and small,In their new dedication chargedWith something ...
I draw a-near you in your sleeping city,Who, in mine ancient freedom,Knew neither loss nor scant;Who hunted even as he ...
(A Modernity) Twelve good friends Passed under her hat, And devil a one of them Knew where he was at. Had they but known, Then had they known all things, — The littleness of great things, The unmeasured immensity of small things. They had known the Where and the Why, The When and the Wherefore, And how the Eternal Conceived the Eternal, and therefore Beginning began the Beginning; They had apprehended The ultimate virtue of sinning; They had caught the whisper That Vega vibrates to Arcturus, Piercing the walls Of heavy flesh that immure us. But if they had known, Then had there been no mystery; And Life had been poorer, And laughter unsurer, And the shadow of death securer, By lack of this brief history.(Charles G. D. Roberts)
There are wolves in the next room waitingWith heads bent low, thrust out, breathingAt nothing in the dark; between them ...
Arcturus is his other name -I'd rather call him "Star."It's very mean of ScienceTo go and interfere!I slew a worm ...
"Arcturus" is his other name -- I'd rather call him "Star." It's very mean of Science To go and interfere! ...
Purged, with the life they left, of all That makes life paltry and mean and small, In their new dedication ...
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires ...
For God, our God is a gallant foe That playeth behind the veil. I have loved my God as a ...
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