The Vanity Of Human Wishes (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
I walk'd and did a little Mole-hill viewFull peopled with a most industrious crewOf busie Ants, where each one labor's ...
I walk'd and did a little Mole-hill viewFull peopled with a most industrious crewOf busie Ants, where each one labor's ...
ISome sort of heart I know is hers,-- I chanced to feel her pulse one night;A brain she has that never ...
Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint,Instead of dirges, this complaint;And for sweet flow'rs to crown thy hearse,From thy griev'd ...
Can we e'er forget our boyhood, And the days we spent at school, With the jolly youths and maidens Who with pencil for ...
The world Nobility doth measure, By acres, or by bagges of treasure: And some with more apparent sense, Doe it compute by long ...
Perhaps had I chosen some other profession Than that of moulding the human mind, I might have secured a greater possession Of lucre ...
What is it, but a sound and healthy body,Which, more than empire and sovereignty, is preferred?Altho' the world's wealth is ...
The Inammoration.ARGUMENT. O, DEUS, aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne! Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui! Languet ut ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
Here, in her elbow chair, she sits A soul alert, alive, A poor old body shrunk and bent— ...
Here-now-our age of socialism!Here in the thick of life below.Today in the name of things to beInto the future forth ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your ...
I don't know what it is, but I distrust myself when I start to like a girl a lot. It ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
O YE wha are sae guid yoursel', Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
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