The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
Rose of Lancaster.* * * * *Encircled by a blooming bandOf peerless damsels, fair and young,Reclined yon canopy beneath,How bright ...
OR SKETCHES OF HIGHLAND SCENERY AND MANNERS: WITH SOME REFLECTIONS ON EMIGRATION. WRITTEN DURING THE AUTHOR'S RECOVERY FROM A LONG ...
I. When Fate its utmost Cruelty had shown, And the Illustrious Charles was now no more, Th' Illustrious Charles, ...
Priam's castle-walls had sunk, Troy in dust and ashes lay,And each Greek, with triumph drunk, Richly laden with his prey,Sat ...
I'LL on; for what should hinder meFrom loving and enjoying thee?Thou canst not those exceptions make,Which vulgar, sordid mortals take-That ...
Come near!—ere yet the dustSoil the bright paleness of the settled brow,Look on your brother, and embrace him now, ...
The Turks, Ossetians, Lekis, Persians,Cherkez, Ghlighvis, Didos and KistsWere ever Georgia's enemies,Assaulting her with blood-smeared fists.But soon at home domestic ...
WERE there no crowns on earth, No evergreen to weave a hero's wreath, That he must pass beyond the gates ...
When Phoebus, and the Nine harmonious Maids, Of old assembled in the Thespian Shades; What Theme, they cry'd, what high ...
The black robes well your form befit; When they are worn we'll make you new. Now for your court! ...
Came the relief. "What, sentry, ho!How passed the night through thy long waking?""Cold, cheerless, dark,--as may befitThe hour before the ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore! The glory from his gray hairs gone Forevermore! Revile ...
I think awhile of Love, and while I think, Love is to me a world, Sole meat and sweetest drink, ...
Priam's castle-walls had sunk, Troy in dust and ashes lay, And each Greek, with triumph drunk, Richly laden with his ...
An Ancient gaffer once I knew, Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard; He claimed a hundred years or ...
I Ere-while of Musick, and Ethereal mirth, Wherwith the stage of Ayr and Earth did ring, And joyous news of ...
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