The Bas Bleu: Or, Conversation. Addressed To Mrs. Vesey (Hannah More Poems)
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
THE BURGHERS.THUS did the prudent son escape from the hot conversation,But the father continued precisely as he had begun itWhat ...
HERMANN AND DOROTHEA.So tow'rd the sun, now fast sinking to rest, the two walk'd together,Whilst he veil'd himself deep in ...
The lovers, in the following poem, were descended of houses that had been long at variance. The Lady is first ...
OH, enter old minstrel, thou time-honour'd one!We children are here in the hall all alone,The portals we straightway will bar.Our ...
Be it what you will, brother,— worse than what you say,—Try to make the best of things, or beat them as you ...
As Faith, a pilgrim, seeks the tombWhere once in Death's eclipsing gloomHer Hope o'erclouded lay;So Love unto the blessed wombWhere ...
"So many are your foes, their arrows shroudThe very Sun with an eclipsing cloud.""We'll fight them in the dark then! ...
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
When on the earth had settled moral night,And darkness reigned where once shone Sinai's light;When superstitious rites usurped the placeWhere ...
MUST beauty reign with tyrant sway, And every nobler prize excel;Eclipsing with her transient ray, The bosom where ...
Once more the Night, like some great dark drop-sceneEclipsing horrors for a brief entr'acte,Descends, lead-weighty. Now the space between,Fringed with ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
I. So far as our story approaches the end, Which do you pity the most of us three?- My friend, ...
DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of ...
Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why Does that eclipsing hand of thine deny The sunshine of the ...
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
I weep for Adonais--he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so ...
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
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