The pilgrimage to Mecca (George Canning Poems)
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
WHAT is a Church?--Let Truth and Reason speak,They would reply, "The faithful, pure, and meek;From Christian folds, the one selected ...
As down the circling wave they glide,Thus spoke at length the Elfin guide:"My friend, behold the favoured coast,"Where ...
COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be, That boasts to love as well as me;And if thy breast have felt ...
THOUGH long by fate's austere decree remov'dFrom scenes still pleasing, and from friends still lov'd,I see low shelter'd in my ...
'TIS past! The sultry tyrant of the southHas spent his short-liv'd rage; more grateful hoursMove silent on; the skies no ...
NOW sad and slow with solemn paces,She wanders thro the castle's courts;Sighing as she the scene retraces,Where silence reigns, instead ...
18th November 1852 "VICTORY!" So once more the cry must ...
Who can bring healing to her heart's despair, Her whole rich sum of happiness lies there! ~ CROLY. Pale is ...
For one short week I leave, with anxious heart,Source of my filial cares, the Full of Days,Lur'd by the promise ...
YES , even amid these wilds forlorn,Where, shivering on the naked spray,The drooping songsters seem to mournThe languid sun's declining ...
IN this rejoicing time, when sun and shower In shining alternation rule the sky, And the brown fields are shadow'd ...
Tho' youth may boast the curls that flow,In sunny waves of auburn glow;As graceful on thy hoary head,Has time the ...
Sometimes our welcome has no tongue; Children are often in the way.We tolerate them while they are young, ...
YES, thou art changed since first we met,But think not I shall e'er regret,Though never can my heart forget, ...
DEAR , peaceful cottage! o'er whose humble thatchThe dewy moss has velvet verdure spread;Once more, with trem'lous hands thy ready ...
From child to youth; from youth to arduous man;From lethargy to fever of the heart;From faithful life to dream-dowered days ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
Lo! in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his ...
Lo, in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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