Lines, on the Drawing Room of an Intimate Friend of the Author’s (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
SWEET scene, on me full often hast thou smil'd,And for a while my pressing cares beguil'd;In thee have I spent ...
SWEET scene, on me full often hast thou smil'd,And for a while my pressing cares beguil'd;In thee have I spent ...
I would rather dwell a hermit In some silent peaceful wood, Where no voice of human being Ever breaks the solitude; Where babbling brook, ...
THROUGH heat and cold, and shower and sun,Still onward cheerly driving!There's life alone in duty done,And rest alone in striving.But ...
ON Carmel's top Elijah stands,While famine wastes the Jewish lands;And Israel's tribes attend his call,To choose their God - the ...
FAIR village nymph, ah! may I meetThy pleasing form where'er I stray!With open air and converse sweet,Still cheer my undiscover'd ...
ALL that we see, about, abroad,What is it all, but nature's God?In meaner works discovered hereNo less than in the ...
HEAVEN-BORN BEAUTY.Venne, non so ben donde.It came, I know not whence, from far above, That clear immortal flame that still doth ...
What carest, dear, should sorrow traceWhere dimples sat, and shouldHer dove-grey cloud to settle 'neath thine eye?The withering of thy ...
Seven days accomplished,--unto Pharaoh's court The sons of Amram went; by Voice Divine Commanded; and, in presence of the king, ...
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
On Santa Croce's golden-pillared shrine, A thousand tapers pour their blended rays In one rich tide of radiance. Like a ...
WILD winged thing, O brought I know not whence To beat your life out in my life's low cage; You ...
Great cities rise and have their fall; the brassThat held their glories moulders in its turn.Hard granite rots like an ...
CANTO I. Hush'd be the envious tongues that dare Bright --- to profane Thy hallow'd shades, where science fair Has ...
Written at Brighthelmstone in Nov. 1792. NOVEMBER'S chill blast on the rough beach is howling,The surge breaks afar, and then ...
THE storms seem fled, the Sun's warm beamDarts chearful o'er the sparkling stream,And melts in tears the gelid snow,Stern Winter ...
ALL that we see, about, abroad, What is it all, but nature's God? In meaner works discovered here No less ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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