The Invitation to Selborne (Gilbert White Poems)
See Selborne spreads her boldest beauties roundThe varied valley, and the mountain ground,Wildly majestic! what is all the prideOf flats, ...
See Selborne spreads her boldest beauties roundThe varied valley, and the mountain ground,Wildly majestic! what is all the prideOf flats, ...
I saw her twins of eyelids listless swoon Mesmeric eyes, Like the mild lapsing of a lulling tune On wide surprise, While slow the ...
Old events have modern meanings; only that survivesOf past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.Mahmood once, the ...
Water: no matter how much, there is still not enough.Cunning life keeps asking for more and then a drop more.Our ...
"Yes, proud Cathedral, ages pass'd away While generations lived their little day,-- France has been deluged with her patriots' blood By traitors to ...
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
But not all unprepared were found the Medes. With restless foot, Belesis through the night, Still to and fro had ...
A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts.This play is dedicated, in profound veneration and respect, to thememory of George Eliot, the ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
As on this world the young man turns his eyes,When forced to try the dark sea of the grave,Thus did ...
There once was a time when I revelled in rhyme, with Valentines deluged my cousins, Translated Tibullus and ...
RELENTLESS foe to human peace, Why fix thy dwelling here?Why triumph o'er the wounded heart, And force the ...
NOW thickening darkness spreads her solemn shade,What awful sounds the startled ear invade,Awake the hallow'd silence of the night,And strike ...
Maiden! in whose kindling eye,Burns the fire of prophecy,On whose brow its glories shine,Priestess at the hidden shrine;Tell me what ...
Set within a desert lone, Circled by an arid sea,Stands a figure carved in stone, Where ...
In the beginning there was light, abundant light that truly lit the way, time was never lost in dodging flights ...
Set within a desert lone, Circled by an arid sea, Stands a figure carved in stone, Where a fountain used ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
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