The Minstrel ; Or, The Progress Of Genius – Book II. (James Beattie Poems)
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
Man's sad necessity, destructive War,Sweeps to the grave the surplus of his sons,Where'er the kindly clime and soil inviteTo Love; ...
Exhortation.See Reproach.Ah! whither fly you? By yourselves, my Friends!And your brave Deeds; by King Evander's NameAnd Conquests gain'd in War: ...
The following lines were suggested by the circumstance of a boat, from the Faro Islands, stopping at Lerwick, on her ...
Muse, who art quick to fireAt the least noble thing,And frankest praise to bringUpon the quivering lyre,Why art thou slow ...
Curst be that busy Wretch, that human Beast,(Some crafty Statesman or ambitious Priest)Who first his own pernicious Schemes to buildHis ...
While you, my Lord, great Drury's weal sustain, Light ev'ry walk, and open all the lane, With strength of arm ...
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such ...
Now Winter is o'er, and sweet Spring is returning,Green buds are expanding to deck ev'ry tree;My BILLY 's return'd! no ...
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...
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