On Clevedale (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WHATE'ER Arcadian scenes in fancy's dreams,Delight the eye and rise before the view,Stupendous rocks, wild woods, meand'ring streams,And lakes adorn'd ...
1.WHATE'ER Arcadian scenes in fancy's dreams,Delight the eye and rise before the view,Stupendous rocks, wild woods, meand'ring streams,And lakes adorn'd ...
ASK you, "What charms first chain'd my heart,"And held me from the world apart,"Made young ambition's turmoil cease,"And blest me ...
When I recall the daysThat saw my childhood of yoreBeside the verdant shoreOf a murmuring lagoon;When I remember the sighsOf ...
I am dotted silver threads dropped from heavenBy the gods. Nature then takes me, to adornHer fields and valleys.I am ...
How dull the wretch, whose philosophic mindDisdains the pleasures of fantastic kind;Whose prosy thoughts the joys of life exclude,And wreck ...
When worthless grandeur fills th' embellish'd urn,No poignant grief attends the sable bier;But when distinguish'd excellence we mourn,Deep is the ...
As 'tis the custom of play-actors,To thank their friends and benefactors,In epilogues compos'd in verse,Which they, like apes, do but ...
On Tampa's hights gray rose the battlements:A summer's day had gone out in the west;The conflagration in the elementsWas ended, ...
"ROSY Bacchus and Pallas once had an affray, Where neither would precedence yield; For each seem'd determin'd on gaining the ...
NOT a sound wak'd the air, not a leaf was in motion;As a mirror of glass was the bosom of ...
Visit of Hope to Sydney CoveWhere Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells,Courts her young navies, and the storm repels;High on ...
Bring me, gentle SimplicityTo where a hovel your steps awaits,To where the wine stem half receives;And the flowering branch overhangs.Lead ...
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appearrs, with considered judgement, bears ...
Unfulfilled to Observation -- Incomplete -- to Eye -- But to Faith -- a Revolution In Locality -- Unto Us ...
Hope is a strange invention -- A Patent of the Heart -- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out -- ...
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
APRILL: Ægloga QuartaTHENOT & HOBBINOLL Tell me good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What? hath some Wolfe thy tender Lambes ...
In praise of Eliza, Queen of the Shepherds SEE where she sits upon the grassie greene, (O seemely sight!) Yclad ...
Shall the Harp then be silent, when he who first gave To our country a name, is withdrawn from all ...
Remember the Glories of Brien the Brave Remember the glories of Brien the brave, Though the days of the hero ...
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