Solitude (John Anster Poems)
Oh, what a lovely silent spot!'Mid such a scene the eremite would hopeTo build his lowly cot,Just where with easy ...
Poems about elisha (21 Poems)
John Bede Polding (Henry Kendall Poems)
With reverent eyes and bowed, uncovered head, A son of sorrow kneels by fanes you knew;But cannot say the words that ...
To John Milton (John Clare Poems)
_"From his honoured friend, William Davenant"_Poet of mighty power, I fainWould court the muse that honoured thee,And, like Elisha's spirit, ...
The Negro Ballot (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Can America be reckoned as the country of the free?In the light of recent actions 'tis a truth that's hard ...
To His Honour the Lieutenant-G (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,Forget their ...
Jericho; or, The Waters Healed (John Newton Poems)
Though Jericho pleasantly stood,And looked like a promising soil;The harvest produced little food,To answer the husbandman's toil.The water some property ...
Rabbi Ismael (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE Rabbi Ishmael, with the woe and sinOf the world heavy upon him, entering inThe Holy of Holies, saw an ...
On The Death Of A Believer (John Newton Poems)
In vain my fancy strives to paintThe moment after deathThe glories that surround the saint,When yielding up its breath.One gentle ...
The Borrowed Axe (John Newton Poems)
The prophets sons, in time of old,Though to appearance poor;Were rich without possessing gold,And honoured, though obscure.In peace their daily ...
Naaman (John Newton Poems)
Before Elisha's gateThe Syrian leper stood;But could not brook to wait,He deemed himself too good:He thought the prophet would attend,And ...
More With Us Than With Them (John Newton Poems)
Alas! Elisha's servant cried,When he the Syrian army spied,But he was soon released from care,In answer to the prophet's prayer.Straitway ...
A Poem on Elijahs’Tran (Benjamin Colman Poems)
Coelo Musa beat.Hor. Carm. Lib. 4. Od. 8.—Nec meus audetRem tentare pudor, quam Vires serre recusent.Hor. Ep. 1. Lib. 2.I ...
Villon (Basil Bunting Poems)
I He whom we anatomized 'whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers and thought on his wit and how neatly ...
Kane (Fitz James O Brien Poems)
Aloft upon an old basaltic crag,Which, scalped by keen winds that defend the Pole,Gazes with dead face on the seas ...
Elijah’s Mantle (George Canning Poems)
A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITT.When, by th' Almighty's dread commandElijah, call'd from Israel's land, ...
Another to Urania (Benjamin Colman Poems)
Attend, ye mournful Parents, whileI sing, a Mother in Israel;The fam'd, the gracious Shunamite,Whose beauteous Story would inviteA Saint to ...
On the Death of a Minister (William Cowper Poem)
His master taken from his head, Elisha saw him go; And in desponding accents said, "Ah, what must Israel do?" ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Against Scoffing and Calling Names (Isaac Watts Poems)
Our tongues were made to bless the Lord, And not speak ill of men: When others give a railing word, ...
To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r, Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more! Of scenes terrestrial how the glories ...
Consolatorium, Ad Parentes (William Strode Poems)
Lett her parents then confesse That they beleeve her happinesse, Which now they question. Thinke as you Lent her the ...