Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
BE hush'd my tongue, nor murmur or complain;With pious awe the struggling tear restrain.Dark is my path and intricate my ...
The whispering water rocks the reeds,And, murmuring softly, laps the weeds;And nurses there the falsest bloomThat ever wrought a lover's ...
But shone superior in degree,That Morning Star so bright,Which rising on our darken'd world,Dispell'd the gloom of night.Transcendently illustrious,Appear his ...
THAT sun which rose o'er Judah's land,On this auspicious day,Shall shine for ages yet to come,With never-setting ray.The Sun of ...
In youth's impeteous days thy heart was warm,Thy tongue uncheck'd, thy spirit bold and high,With such blind zeal for miscall'd ...
COME , SESTOS and ABYDOS , aid my song;To you these elegiac strains belong.Your griefs with mine, ye wretched cities, ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
MANY a graven gem, besetWith gold, is worn as an amuletIn the far-off climes of the East,—a charmTo preserve the ...
THE CONFIDANT.Anna was young and lovely--in her eyeThe glance of beauty, in her cheek the dye:Her shape was slender, and ...
The Representation.ARGUMENT. Mundus Opes, Animam Coelum, Terramque resumpsit Terra: DEUS, Vitam cum tulit, Ipse dedit. Solus Amor facit esse DEUM; ...
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
HAPPY the land, round which the ocean flows,Whose ebbing waves its fertile soil compose.The shepherd fearless leads his flocks to ...
THE MOTHER.There was a worthy, but a simple Pair,Who nursed a Daughter, fairest of the fair:Sons they had lost, and ...
Mean time the Pagan deities, displeas'd To find the public storms so soon appeas'd, Studious attempt by new malicious ways, ...
CANTATA.This is Denmark's holyday; Dance, ye maidens! Sing, ye men! Tune, ye harpers! Blush, ye heroes!This is Denmark's holyday.ONE VOICE.In ...
OR THE DESERTED LOVER. ONCE rosy pleasure bless'd my smiling hours,And all her scatter'd joys around me shed:For me of ...
Life's summer flown, the wint'ry tempest rude, Began to lower on the declining year; When smiles celestial gilt the prospect ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
1 O STAR of France! The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led ...
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