Bessy Bell. (George Pope Morris Poems)
When life looks drear and lonely, love, And pleasant fancies flee,Then will the Muses only, love, Bestow a thought on me!Mine is ...
When life looks drear and lonely, love, And pleasant fancies flee,Then will the Muses only, love, Bestow a thought on me!Mine is ...
Occasioned by a Lady having presented a Gentleman, inreturn for a poem, with a golden violet. In imitation ofthe ancient ...
The heavens beheld the beauty of my queen,And all amazed, to wonder thus began:"Why dotes not Jove, as erst we ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
Ye dear stars of the Bear, I did not think I should again be turning, as I used, To see ...
IO, that the years had language! time would tell,Of one bright night the moon has loved so well, For oft ...
Friends!Have you, too, noticed that calm which descendsUpon affairs today?Search as we may,The papers have few things indeed to sayOf ...
Under the sea, which is their sky, they rise To watery altitudes as vast as those ...
WHY, let is run! who bids it stay? Let us the while be merry; Time there in water creeps away, ...
O gracious jar,--my friend, my twin, Born at the time when I was born,--Whether tomfoolery you inspireOr animate with love's ...
The early spring's sweet blush,Like a maiden's beauteous flush,Mounts the cheek of earth and sky,With radiance soft and shy.She comes ...
She does not mind a good cigar (The kind, that is, I smoke);She thinks all men quite stupid are, (But ...
Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy To those who woo her with too slavish knees, But makes ...
When I behold a forest spread With silken trees upon thy head; And when I see that other dress Of ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
How Human Nature dotes On what it can't detect. The moment that a Plot is plumbed Prospective is extinct -- ...
She does not mind a good cigar (The kind, that is, I smoke); She thinks all men quite stupid are, ...
There once was a Square, such a square little Square, And he loved a trim Triangle; But she was a ...
It was the steamer Alice May that sailed the Yukon foam. And touched in every river camp from Dawson down ...
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