On Happiness (James Thomson Poems)
Warm'd by the summer sun's meridian ray,As underneath a spreading oak I layContemplating the mighty load of woe,In search of ...
Warm'd by the summer sun's meridian ray,As underneath a spreading oak I layContemplating the mighty load of woe,In search of ...
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...
Fairies can hide anywhere,Up and down, and in and out,'Neath the cushion of a chair,In a teapot's empty spout;They can ...
Black fool, why winter here? These frozen skies,Worn by your wings and deafen'd by your cries,Should warn you hence, where ...
Throned on the rainbow, goddess Aphrodite,Daughter of Zeus, wile-weaver, I beseech thee,Neither with fears nor sorrows, O thou dread one, Thrall ...
All round they murmur, 'O profane, Keep thy heart's secret hid as gold';But I, by God, would sooner be Some knight in ...
I will lift mine eyes to the mountains, To the mountains whence cometh my aid;I shall drink of the Mercy's crystal ...
TAKE me to some waste of being,Virgin spaces, dark and far,Seas no vessel ever burdened,Skies that never held a star;There, ...
Look how the lark soars upward and is gone,Turning a spirit as he nears the sky!His voice is heard, but ...
'TIS done--the night has pass'd away; And, basking in the sunny day, The laughing fountain's waters bear No record of ...
"As I cross'd the desert wild, Not a star amid the gloom, Loud and harsh the tempest howl'd, Driving vapours ...
Is it not thine, O God, this passing world? Is it not thine to give it at thy will?But ...
It is not seemly to be famous:Celebrity does not exalt;There is no need to hoard your writingsAnd to preserve them ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities: Felt their Nerves change into Marrow And hardening Bones began In swift diseases ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
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