Abuse of the Gospel (William Cowper Poem)
Too many, Lord, abuse Thy grace In this licentious day, And while they boast they see Thy face, They turn ...
Too many, Lord, abuse Thy grace In this licentious day, And while they boast they see Thy face, They turn ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
My father is a quiet man With sober, steady ways; For simile, a folded fan; His nights are like his ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
She's all my fancy painted him (I make no idle boast); If he or you had lost a limb, Which ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman The kaleidoscope stood befrilled with splendour; no messenger from on high did descend to hand it blessings, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Fallen pile! I ask not what has been thy fate; But when the winds, slow wafted from the main, Through ...
No, I'm a man, I'm vull a man, You beat my manhood, if you can. You'll be a man if ...
A glint of her hair or a flash of her shoulder - That is the most I can boast to ...
No, I'm a man, I'm vull a man, You beat my manhood, if you can. You'll be a man if ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Ay! gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament! That swelling wide o'er earth and air, And round the horizon bent, ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
What body can be ploughed, Sown, and broken yearly? But she would not die, she vowed, But she has, nearly. ...
It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most. (Hilaire ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
Man I am and man would be, Love--merest man and nothing more. Bid me seem no other! Eagles boast of ...
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
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