Resignation Pt 1 (Edward Young Poems)
The days how few, how short the yearsOf man's too rapid race!Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,A shorter in its ...
The days how few, how short the yearsOf man's too rapid race!Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,A shorter in its ...
Farewell, for now my gallant bark, Loosed from her mooring, quits the shoreAmid a fog and mist as dark As that which ...
Our _Donne_ is dead; England should mourne, may say We had a man where language chose to stay And shew her gracefull ...
'Twas not rare versatility, Nor gift of poesy or art, Nor piquant, sparkling _jeux d'esprit_ Which at the call of fancy come, That touched ...
When Strephon's Verse before my Eyes was laid,With Wonder I the nauseous Stuff survey'd;I read and laugh'd at all the ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
LOng my dull Muse in heavy slumbers lay, Indulging Sloth, and to soft Ease gave way, Her Fill of Rest ...
Praise it -- 'tis dead -- It cannot glow -- Warm this inclement Ear With the encomium it earned Since ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
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