The Columbiad: Book X (Joel Barlow Poems)
The vision resumed, and extended over the whole earth. Present character of different nations. Future progress of society with respect ...
The vision resumed, and extended over the whole earth. Present character of different nations. Future progress of society with respect ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
Now, round the yielding canopy of shade,Again the Guide his heavenly power display'd.Sudden, the stars their trembling fires withdrew,Returning splendors ...
COME, spur away, I have no patience for a longer stay, But must go down And leave the chargeable noise of this great ...
ANTARCTIC isle! thy mountains riseAll dimly o'er the western main;But gladly I regale my eyesWith the bless'd sight of land ...
Shake, shake the earth with giant tread, Thou red-maned Titian bold;For every step a man lies dead, A cottage hearth is cold.Take ...
LITTLE the present careth for the past,Too little-'tis not well!For careless ones we dwellBeneath the mighty shadow it has cast.Its ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
In early, prehistoric days, before the reign of Man,When neolithic Nature fashioned things upon a planThat was large as it ...
The thoughts of the future doth puzzle my mind, And O'how I shudder at flitting of time; It seems that ...
Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made Choice of their deities, this sacred shadeHad held an alter to her power, that ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
I never kill a fly because I think that what we have of laws To regulate and civilize Our daily ...
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