Tale IX (George Crabbe Poems)
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
GovenorsAN ardent spirit dwells with Christian love,The eagle's vigour in the pitying dove;'Tis not enough that we with sorrow sigh,That ...
'Again the sun is hot and high in heaven;The rustic sweats beneath the sultry ray;The idler seeks the shady walk; ...
And—'Yonder look! yoho! yoho! Nancy is off!' the farmer cried, Advancing by the river side, Red-kerchieft and brown-coated;—'So, My girl, ...
Once more among our archangelic hillsThe streets of this old, grave, and gracious townThrob with renewing vigor as when SpringRushes ...
I.I stood in an ancient gardenWith high red walls around;Over them grey and green lichensIn shadowy arabesque wound.The topmost climbing ...
Pleasanter than the hills of Thessaly,Nearer and dearer to the poet's heartThan the blue ripple belting Salamis,Or long grass waving ...
THE SPARROW'S ADDRESS TO THE COOK MAIDS. YE gentle cookmaids, oh! in pity spare,The various fragments from your plenteous boardThe ...
THE LAMENTATION OF A CANARY BIRD IN HIS CAGE. OH ! happy kindred, tenants of the air,Ye wing'd inhabitants of ...
She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses,With her pretty patent leathers or her alligator ties,With her eyes ...
O, you shall live in a great stone hall,In a parkland fair and wide,With many a servant to do your ...
I'm writing comedy again,The daintiest pleasure known to men;Unless a daintier might beTo watch your acted comedy:The airy ladies gaily ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
NEAR to the silver Trent SIRENA dwelleth; She to whom Nature lent All that excelleth; By which the Muses late ...
When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes, In colour black why wrapt she beams so bright? Would she in ...
In highest way of heav'n the Sun did ride, Progressing then from fair twins' golden place: Having no scarf of ...
When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes, In color black why wrapp'd she beams so bright? Would she in ...
GO, little book - the ancient phrase And still the daintiest - go your ways, My Otto, over sea and ...
Now this is the story of Olaf Who ages and ages ago Lived right on the top of a mountain, ...
The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet, And laid him kneeling at thy feet. But, -- guerdon rich for ...
It was three slim does and a ten-tined buck in the bracken lay; And all of a sudden the sinister ...
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