Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. (William Cowper Poems)
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God.To Heaven's bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, ...
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God.To Heaven's bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, ...
Thus Mommus spoke. When sage Minerva rose,From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows,Her skilful hand an ivory pallet grac'd,Where shining ...
NOW cease the exulting strain! And bid the warbling lyre complain.Heave the soft sigh, and drop the tuneful tear,And mingle notes ...
[The following little Poems are written after the Model of the Old English Ballads, and are inscribed to those who ...
While Death his awful Triumphs spreads around,And crowded Nations fill the vaulted Ground;While ev'ry Rank, and State, and Sex, and ...
SCENE, a Valley near Bagdat TIME, the Morning`Ye Persian maids, attend your poet's lays,And hear how shepherds pass their golden ...
Is it his daily toil that wringsFrom the slave's bosom that deep sigh?Is it his niggard fare that bringsThe tear ...
With down--cast Eyes, and folded Arms,Young Myrtle saunter'd out one Day,Reflecting on Florinda's Charms,The Fair, the blooming, and the gay;Deeply ...
She told her beads with down-cast eyes, Within the ancient chapel dim; And ever as her fingers slim Slipt o'er th' insensate ivories, My ...
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
My country, noble spectre of the past; Along thy rivers, and within thy vales, There breathes a deep-toned voice, that ...
Had I an envied name and purse of gold,My friends were more than all my wants twice told;Reduced to rags ...
ALL day I read your book; at EveYour dreams into my dark sleep stole,Through the unbroken hours to weaveA picture ...
Yes, the Year is growing old, And his eye is pale and bleared! Death, with frosty hand and cold, Plucks ...
Why, when I gaze on Phaon's beauteous eyes, Why does each thought in wild disorder stray? Why does each fainting ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories