The Rural Life In New England. Canto Second (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
In the gay and crowded cityWhere the tall and jostling roof-treesJealous seem of one another,Jealous of the ground they stand ...
In the gay and crowded cityWhere the tall and jostling roof-treesJealous seem of one another,Jealous of the ground they stand ...
When Vertue's Standard Ecclesiasticks bear,Their sacred Robe the noblest Minds revere.All to its Guidance do their Thoughts submit,But such who ...
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Thus Mommus spoke. When sage Minerva rose,From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows,Her skilful hand an ivory pallet grac'd,Where shining ...
"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus."In spite of all that poets tell us(For poets are but lying fellows)Of Cupid's flames, ...
DAMON.THE sun with keenness darts his sultry ray;To some cool shade Philander haste away,Nigh yon smooth riv'let, where the southern ...
By an old --pursued,A crazy prelate, and a royal prude;By dull divines, who look with envious eyesOn ev'ry genius that ...
I SING of good eating! There lately befelA notable feast at a Sydney Hotel!There was plenty for me, and plenty ...
I.IN yonder dark and narrow lodging,There rests a patriot's body,Which, after many a slip and dodging,Death took in safe custody.II.What ...
Read ye here the song as sung By a chief named, briefly, Ung.In the days when arguments were manly ...
mehitabel the cat claims thatshe has a human soulalso and has transmigratedfrom body to body and itmay be so boss ...
AS late the Muse in silent hour I sought,And chanc'd to rove the various field of thought,Where many a trifle ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
Love's the boy stood on the burning deck trying to recite "The boy stood on the burning deck." Love's the ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
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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