The Sky, Or A Description Of A Fine Evening: August 17. 1808. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
WITH rapture and delight I oft admireJehovah's works that come within my view,Himself exceeding admiration's ken,Or ought that I could ...
WITH rapture and delight I oft admireJehovah's works that come within my view,Himself exceeding admiration's ken,Or ought that I could ...
While to our Queen each duteous Bard conveysThe faithful Tribute of exalted Praise;While Genius, Learning, all their Force combine,To make ...
My God! whence comes it, that the human Soul,Unsatisfy'd with all Things here below,From Wish to Wish must discontented roll,Nor ...
Love, do not count your labour lost Though I turn sullen, grim, retired Even at your side; my thought is crossed With fancies ...
Who has not seen the inert mind, Bowed down and sore oppressed, Start into life, and vigor find At touch of interest Some sympathetic ...
How sweet the cadence of his lyre! What melody of words!They strike a pulse within the heart Like songs of forest-birds,Or tinkling ...
O LAURA ! when in philosophic dreamOn thee I thought, thou to my mind didst seemEven some disembodied spirit bright,Clothed ...
There is a presence on the lonely hill,Lovely and chill:There is an emanation in the wood,Half understood.They come upon me ...
The Contemplation.ARGUMENT. Pango nec humanis Opus enarrabile Verbis, Quae meli?s possem Mira silendo loqui! Da, DEUS, Illa canam, quae Vox ...
But in her Temple's last recess inclos'd, On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd. Him close she curtains round with ...
AT that lost hour disowned of day and night, The after-birth of midnight, when life's face Turns to the wall ...
Because a lady asks me, I would tellOf an affect that comes often and is fellAnd is so overweening; Love ...
'Tis done! Henceforth nor joy nor woe Can make or mar my fate; I gaze around, above, below, ...
PARENT of good, thou essence from on high,Pure emanation from the Deity,Not to the favour'd sons of wealth confin'd,Thou humble ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. ...
I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. ...
My spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way. My emanation far within Weeps incessantly ...
MY Spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly ...
Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
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