The Author (Charles Churchill Poems)
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
O ponder well, ye serving Maids, The doleful Tale I sing: Learn how disastrous 'tis to wear Too high your ...
THOUGHT AND DEED333 THOU MUST WIN IT HEREHere must thy deed be done.'Twere an undreamed-of thingThat he who wins no ...
Brothers!(I address myself to that chosen few -- which includes you,My dear reader -- whoAre men of understanding, bright intellect ...
You would be wise, I'll teach you if you please,Withdraw you mind from such wild thoughts as theseIf I my ...
To go or not to go, that is the question:Whether it pays best to suffer pesteringBy idle ...
Do you come to me to bend me to your willas conqueror to the vanquishedto make of me a bondslaveto ...
Back to the kicthen, mein Gretchen! Back to the scullery, frau!You have dreamed your brief hour of a matriarch's pow'r: ...
It's the dull road that leads to the gay road; The practice that leads to success; The work road that ...
Panels of claret and blue which shine Under the moon like lees of wine. A coronet done in a golden ...
Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything To do ...
As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells- That bird ...
the dream of the white bird flying offers a freedom as tasty as nectar how our lips purse to the ...
No Time To think, to plan, to dream, to be ready Reading slower as time goes on Words blur in ...
These tiny loiterers on the barley's beard, And happy units of a numerous herd Of playfellows, the laughing Summer brings, ...
What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind. I ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
None lives for ever, brother, and nothing lasts for long. Keep that in mind and rejoice. Our life is not ...
When twenty-one I loved to dream, And was to loafing well inclined; Somehow I couldn't get up steam To welcome ...
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