Elegy I. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country (William Shenstone Poems)
He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country, and Takes Occasion To Expatiate in Praise of Simplicity.To a FriendFor rural ...
He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country, and Takes Occasion To Expatiate in Praise of Simplicity.To a FriendFor rural ...
THOUGH every power on earth combinesTo do his high command,God can effect his vast designsEven by the feeblest hand:The weakest ...
THE minstrel-king of Judah satAll in his banquet-hall,Richly arrayed in Eastern state,On a high festival.A Syrian slave stood by his ...
Spare, generous victor, spare the slave,Who did unequal war pursue;That more than triumph he might have,In being overcome by you.In ...
So! the fierce acid licks the silver clean,Unwonted plain the superscription's seenRound the cleared head; the metal, virgin-bright,Shines a mild ...
Now she heard the following words sadly sung,-"Life is a shadow that flits awayIn a night of darkness and woe."But ...
L'Homme qui ne se trouve point, et ne se trouvera jamais.The man who feels the dear disease,Forgets himself, neglects to ...
The RECAPITULATION.And Pourtrait of a Heav'nly breathing Soul. Whoso delights to burn in holy Fire Of Virgin fair Theophila, Joy, ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
As years passed on, no wonder, eachAn inward grace revealed;For where the soul is peace and love,It may not be ...
Did I ever tell you, my dears, the wayThat the birds of Cisseter--"Cisseter!" eh?Well "Ciren-cester"--one OUGHT to say,From "Castra," or ...
What cheer, Imperial Mountain? Titan, hail!Thy distant crest gleams in the morning-light, Like a small shallop's broad and snowy sail,Over ...
SURELY, dame Nature made you in some dream Of old-world women--Chriemhild, or bright Aslauga, or Boadicea fierce and fair, Or ...
O SILENT my sister, who stands by my side at the shore, Back gazing with me on those waves which ...
Great men by small means oft are overthrown; He's lord of thy life, who contemns his own. (Robert Herrick)
When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, And sedges were horny, And summer's green wonderwork faltered On leaze and in lane, ...
Characters of a saint. Who shall inhabit in thy hill, O God of holiness? Whom will the Lord admit to ...
Spare, gen'rous victor, spare the slave, Who did unequal war pursue; That more than triumph he might have, In being ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
OH how comely it is and how reviving To the Spirits of just men long opprest! When God into the ...
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