The Triumph of Dead : Chap. 2 (Mary Sidney Herbert Poems)
That night, which did the dreadful hap ensue That quite eclips'd, nay, rather did replace The sun in skies, and ...
That night, which did the dreadful hap ensue That quite eclips'd, nay, rather did replace The sun in skies, and ...
ALL mortals fain the time wou'd knowWhen Christ shall judge the world below ;But better 'tis they shou'd prepare,Ere they ...
ON Gask's deserted ancient hallWas twilight closing fast,And, in its dismal shadows, allSeem'd lofty, void, and vast.All sounds of life, ...
Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers deathMy thoughts hang on me, & my lab'ring breathStopt up with sighs, my ...
HOLD! Prompter, hold! a word before your nonsense;I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience.My pride forbids it ever should ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT,OR The Happinesse of a Private Life.The Segregation.THE ARGUMENT. True Blisse! Thou know'st but Few, to Few ...
The Restauration.ARGUMENT. Laetior una Dies, JESU, tua Sacra Canenti; Qu?m sine Te, melicis Secula mille Lyris. Ut paveam Scelus omne, ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
Fair Cloe! when thou deign'st to come,To any neighb'ring Rout or Drum;The Belles who shin'd before so bright,Dazzl'd each Petit ...
The long laments I spent for ruin'd Troy,Are dried; and now mine eyes run teares of joy.No more shall men ...
"HOW many a day, in various hues array'd, Bright with gay sun-shine, or eclips'd with shade; How many an hour, ...
AND is that beauteous Star eclips'd in night,Which late in Brunswick's constellation shone?Whose rays with mild effulgence beam'd so bright,And ...
Behold him now his genuine colours wear,That specious false-one, by whose cruel wilesI lost thy amity; saw thy dear smilesEclips'd; ...
Define my weal, and tell the joys of Heav'n; Express my woes, and show the pains of Hell; Declare what ...
LIFE ne'er exulted in so rich a prize, As Burnet, lovely from her native skies; Nor envious death so triumph'd ...
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
1. Award, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad, It was high-spring, and all the way Primros'd, and ...
I weep for Adonais--he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
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