On the Birth-Day of Queen Katherine (Anne Killigrew Poem)
WHile yet it was the Empire of the Night, And Stars still check'r'd Darkness with their Light, From Temples round ...
WHile yet it was the Empire of the Night, And Stars still check'r'd Darkness with their Light, From Temples round ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! ...
[From the Morlack.) WHAT is yonder white thing in the forest? Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be? ...
For those standing marching against the tyrants heading for his palace unafraid of his rage A prayer for those marching ...
There--let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose; The patient hands that wearied not, But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
A STURGEON, once, a glutton famed was led To have for supper--all, except the head. With wond'rous glee he feasted ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite; But black sin hath betrayed to endless ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
By night when others soundly slept, And had at once both case and rest, My waking eyes were open kept ...
. By night when others soundly slept And hath at once both ease and Rest, My waking eyes were open ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
A PICTURE AT FANO. I. Dear and great Angel, wouldst thou only leave That child, when thou hast done with ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
Fellow men! why should the lords try to despise And prohibit women from having the benefit of the parliamentary Franchise? ...
On one occasion King James the Fifth of Scotland, when alone, in disguise, Near by the Bridge of Cramond met ...
Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone- The late and the good Lord Tennyson. I hope his soul ...
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
'Twas in the year of 1858, and on October the fourteenth day, That a fire broke out in a warehouse, ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of June, Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee in London caused a ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
At the open door of the room I stand and look at the night, Hold my hand to catch the ...
The pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Something which sets the black poplars ashake with ...
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