Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto II (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
As still, with Hope's delusion gay,AMANTOR traced his devious way,A stately Palace rose to view;The walls were gold ...
The four winds of earth, the North, South, East, and West,Shrieked and groaned, sobbed and wailed, like the soul of ...
Under what spell are we debasedBy fears for our inviolate Isle,Whose record is of dangers facedAnd flung to heel with ...
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and ...
Behold my soul? She sits so far above you Your wildest dream has never glanced so high; ...
Should painter attach to a fair human head The thick, turgid neck of a stallion,Or depict a spruce lass with ...
Have you heard the magniloquent, eloquent Jim? The yogi of Yarra, whose silvery tongue,In days of his promise won many ...
Is there a man that never sighedTo set the prisoner free?Is there a man that never prizedThe sweets of liberty?Then ...
Me let the world disparage and despise — As one unfettered with its gilded chains, As one untempted by its ...
These castles heaped in shattered piles once gracedAnd guarded you, Crimea, thankless land!Today like giant skulls set high they standAnd ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
I have seen peoples come and go Alike the Ocean'd ebb and flow; I have seen kingdoms rise and fall ...
There's an infinity of wisdom in your smile that would deny the winsome wit that lies at back of it; ...
The strident sounds of silence echo in a darkened room, a beggar's tomb of emptied space and barrenness, a shameful ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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