An Occasional Imitation Of A Modern Author Upon The Game Of Chess (John Denham Poems)
A tablet stood of that abstersive tree, Where Aethiop's swarthy bird did build her nest;Inlaid it was with Libyan ivory, Drawn from ...
A tablet stood of that abstersive tree, Where Aethiop's swarthy bird did build her nest;Inlaid it was with Libyan ivory, Drawn from ...
To the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of Radnor.Per varios casus per tot discrimina rerumTendimus ——— VirgilThis Essay was wrote soon ...
IWe look for her that sunlike stoodUpon the forehead of our day,An orb of nations, radiating foodFor body and for ...
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
Thou ferse god of armes, Mars the rede,That in the frosty contre called Trace,Within thy grisly temple ful of dredeHonoured ...
IHow vain is Life! which rightly we compare To flying Posts, that haste away;To Plants, that fade with the declining ...
ME Thought I pass'd through th'Edalyan Groues,And askt the Graces, if they could directMe to a Lady whom Minerva chose,With ...
BRITANNIA.Wretched Britannia! Hapless and undone! How have my Follies call'd this Vengeance down, And anger'd Heav'n to so severe a ...
Originally addressed to a Young Gentleman, who, entering under the banners of Mars, signalized himself in the service of his ...
What fruits they have, and how heaven smilesUpon those late-discovered isles.Aid me, Bellona, while the dreadful fightBetwixt a nation and ...
Oh, I came singing down the road Whereon was nought perplext me,And Pan with Art ...
This is my welcome; this is how I have decided to bid All Hail! to thee and to the other ...
A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY, THEN WITH HISREGIMENT IN CORSICA, 1793. O THOU so dear! whose wand'ring starLeaves sad maternal ...
In Progress you have little faith, say you:Men will maintain dear interests, wreak base hates,By force, and gentle women choose ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
OCTOBER: Ægloga DecimaPIERCE & CUDDIE Cuddie, for shame hold up thy heavye head, And let us cast with what delight ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
The legislators pass along A solemn, self-important throng! Just raised from the common mass, They feel themselves another class. --But ...
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