The Minstrel ; Or, The Progress Of Genius – Book II. (James Beattie Poems)
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
I.Thrice hath the spring beheld thy faded fame Since I exulting grasp'd the tuneful shell: Eager through endless years to sound thy ...
"Since he miscalled the morning star,Nor man, nor fiend hath fallen so far."— ByronWhen gathered in the courts above, Before Jehovah's ...
Since flaming angels drove our sireFrom Eden's green to walk the mire,We are the folk who tilled the plotAnd ground ...
Bulwark of England, God-given Liberty!Name much malign'd, yet noble and glorious, How rarely the masses who claim thee Judge as they ought ...
The angels are singing like birds in a tree In the organ of good St. Cecily: And the parson reads with his ...
TOO long mere words have thralled us. Let us think!Oh ponder, are we "free and equal" yet?That July bombast, writ ...
I.With sordid floods the wintry UrnHath stain'd fair Richmond's level green:Her naked hill the Dryads mourn,No longer a poetic scene.No ...
I.NOT without envy Wealth at times must lookOn their brown strength who wield the reaping-hook."And scythe, or at the forge-fire ...
We lads that live up in the nobs,Tho' our manners might yet bear a rubbing,We're handy at neat little jobsSuch ...
The sects send their rumours as they go,For in the spruit the nation shows its heatherNor withers till the rota ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Tom Hill was in the saddle,One bright November morn,The echoing glades of Guiting WoodWere ringing with his horn.The diamonds of ...
Awake! awake! Hear Freedom callingUpon her sons to fly to arms; While Treason's trumpet-tongue appalling Is madly sounding its alarms. ...
Can it be I -- this Hindenburg, deferring To demagogues, catch phrases, lucky charmsAnd all this mummery about me stirring? ...
Camouflage is all the rage.Ladies in their fight with age—Soldiers in their fight with foes—Demagogues who mask and poseIn the ...
Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers; This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ...
Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no man Is crowned ...
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