The Haggis (Joseph Johnston Lee Poems)
To Mrs M___, to whom we were indebted for a haggis,whose amplitude was in somewise commensurate with the largeness of ...
To Mrs M___, to whom we were indebted for a haggis,whose amplitude was in somewise commensurate with the largeness of ...
IYOU wish to be a poet, Little Man?More verses limping 'neath their big intent?Well — one must be a poet ...
"Grace is deceitful, and beauty vain."—Solomon.O, say not, wisest of all the kingsThat have risen on Israel's throne to reign,Say ...
Wait — For the Wood is dark,Man cannot leave his markLost in that Forest of sinuous Ways,Hear the Wind blustering,Forces ...
Ognor che l' idol mio.Whene'er the idol of these eyes appears Unto my musing heart so weak and strong, Death comes between ...
Whate'er the buildings I have raised to fame,And whether long or short their future date,Amid the effusions of a purer ...
STILLNESS and sunshine after stormy days;Familiar beauties reproduced anew,But with an added charm of shape and hueThat seems to grow ...
When blooming springArrays the laughing fields in green,Then flowers in open air are seen,And warbling birds are heard to sing, Almighty ...
LOUISATOEMMA,HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.THEE EMMA , four slow-circling years have seenPress, with thy pensive foot, Savannas green;Seen thee, with ...
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
I. Leave, bashfull Muse, the too hot Latian Shore, To Albions temperate Clime sail or'e; Sing Learnings Tempe, where clear ...
There was a slave, who, born to days unbless'd,Drew from his parent blood the hard decreeOf ceaseless and unwilling servitude.His ...
A RONDEAU BY COUPERINQuiet form of silent nun,What has given you to my inward eyes?What has marked you, unknown one,In ...
"DOWN in the bleak December bay The ghostly vessel stands away; Her spars and halyards white with ice, Under the ...
The leafless branch and meadow sere, The dull and leaden skies,Join with the mournful wind and drearIn dirges for ...
658Whole Gulfs-of Red, and Fleets-of Red-And Crews-of solid Blood-Did place upon the West-Tonight-As 'twere specific Ground-And They-appointed Creatures-In Authorized Arrays-Due-promptly-as ...
Whole Gulfs -- of Red, and Fleets -- of Red -- And Crews -- of solid Blood -- Did place ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
NOW in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays, And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er her braes; While birds warble ...
v.1-5 L. M. Public prayer and praise. The praise of Zion waits for thee, My God, and praise becomes thy ...
SPIRIT that form'd this scene, These tumbled rock-piles grim and red, These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks, These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this ...
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