A Song : The Sparkling Eye (William Cowper Poems)
The sparkling eye, the mantling cheek,The polished front, the snowy neck,How seldom we behold in one!Glossy locks, and brow serene,Venus' ...
The sparkling eye, the mantling cheek,The polished front, the snowy neck,How seldom we behold in one!Glossy locks, and brow serene,Venus' ...
The narrow senses over-ride Man's mind,And into circumscription put his Thought;Tie up the wings of th'Imagination, caughtAnd birdlimed, by the ...
The faithful helm commands the keel,From port to port fair breezes blow;But the ship must sail the convex sea,Nor may ...
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
Now, here is a tale of the Glugs of Gosh, In the end of the year umteen;Of the Glugs of ...
'Twas night, and now advanc'd the solemn hour;The keeper of the prison, from his tow'r, Astonish'd, sees a form divinely ...
On one fine but fatal morning in the early Eocene, Lo, a brawny Bloke set out to dig a hole:First ...
It chanced one day, in the middle of May, There came to the great King SploshA policeman, who said, while ...
To cheer the Prince, his aged friendHis pleasing converse loves to lend;And, as his lips events relate,AMANTOR asks ...
Often, when o'er tree and turret, Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I linger Known familiarly as "King's."And ...
My darling's features, painted by the light; As in the convex of a mirror, see Her face diminished so fantastically ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
A fall on the ice, two plus year ago a concave spot, in my left hip, where it once was ...
The Admirations -- and Contempts -- of time -- Show justest -- through an Open Tomb -- The Dying -- ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the ...
Frost apple on a knotted whirling bough of dark becoming where it cannot be. So much both for the soil ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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