A Sequel To The Fable Of The Oak And The Dunghill (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
At length this Oak, all canker'd round,And rotten to the Heart,Became the Nuisance of the Ground,And play'd the Tyrant's Part.His ...
At length this Oak, all canker'd round,And rotten to the Heart,Became the Nuisance of the Ground,And play'd the Tyrant's Part.His ...
AT an open window sitting,On this day of mirth and glee,'Cross a flow'ry vista flitting,Many passing forms I see.Ah! lovely ...
I have done one braver thingThan all the Worthies did,And yet a braver thence doth spring,Which is, to keep that ...
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets ...
"SWEEP on, ye winds-congenial billows roar, As, lost, I wander on your dubious shore; In sad review each shudd'ring vision ...
Oh! Dreams are mysteries! The free born mindOwns not the fetters which the body wears,By sleep imposed. But starting from ...
WHAT glorious vision charms my wond'ring sight!A Goddess with benignant smile appears;Her graceful form, attir'd in robes of light,And in ...
COME now--to the gates of that palace advance,Built by Louis Eleventh, "the Nero of France;"And tell how he suffered the ...
QUEEN of the blest Angelic Choir!Bright native of the spheres!Whose pow'rs all Nature's works inspire,Whose notes, entranc'd, she hears,'Tis thou ...
AS I stood by yon roofless tower, Where the wa'flower scents the dewy air, Where the howlet mourns in her ...
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the ...
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
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