Robert Edward Lee (Duval Porter Poems)
Tho' Homor sings of Grecian IslesIn strains that every heart beguiles,How warriors fought and heroes fellFor Helen, false and fickle ...
Tho' Homor sings of Grecian IslesIn strains that every heart beguiles,How warriors fought and heroes fellFor Helen, false and fickle ...
CHECK not the tear which Grief and Nature crave,To bathe so fair an infant's early grave;But let the Christian's hope ...
In ev'ry thing that happens search you mindAnd try what force, what faculties you findFor the encounter of the object ...
RELIGION! fairest child of Heav'n,Why art thou drawn with brow austere?Sweet cherub guide to mortals giv'n,Why clad in frowns severe?Thy ...
THE sigh that struggles in my breast,The tear that fain would give it rest, Can no relief impart;Since first ...
In France I saw a hill—a gentle slopeRising above old tombs to greet the gleamFrom soft spring skies. Beyond these ...
"AVAUNT thee, soft Eloquence, exquisite harm! Nor longer thy poison impart, Nor longer endeavour, thou dangerous charm, To lure Sensibility's ...
Over the dripping roofs and sunk snow-barrows,The bells are ringing loud and strangely near,The shout of children dins upon mine ...
"THE greatest bliss Is in a kiss- A kiss of love refin'd, When springs the soul Without controul, And blends ...
IN airy dreams fond fancy flies,My absent love to see,And with the early dawn I rise,Dear youth, to think of ...
BEhold, dear Mother, who was late our Fear, Disarm'd and Harmless, I present you here; The Tongue ty'd up, that ...
Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! ...
Sooner I'd praise a Cloud which Light beguiles, Than thy rash Hand which robs this Face of Smiles; And does ...
WHEN dear Clarinda, 1 matchless fair, First struck Sylvander's raptur'd view, He gaz'd, he listened to despair, Alas! 'twas all ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
The little Love-god lying once asleep Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life ...
There's a dashin' sort of boy Which they call his Party's Joy, And his smile-that-won't-come-off would quite disarm ye; And ...
Daphnis must from Chloe part: Now is come the dismal Hour That must all his Hopes devour, All his Labour, ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
See with what simplicity This Nimph begins her golden daies! In the green Grass she loves to lie, And there ...
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