A Day: An Epistle (John Armstrong Poems)
Escap'd from London now four Moons, and more,I greet gay Wilkes from Fulda's wasted Shore,Where cloath'd with Woods a hundred ...
Escap'd from London now four Moons, and more,I greet gay Wilkes from Fulda's wasted Shore,Where cloath'd with Woods a hundred ...
Now Jove's Command fulfill'd, the Son of MayQuits the black Shades and slowly mounts to Day.For lazy Clouds in gloomy ...
Pent the wynds and closes narrow, Breathing pestilential air,Crush'd beneath oppression's harrow, Faint with famine, bow'd with care,—Gaunt Affliction's sons and daughters! Why ...
Last night unpleasing visions round my head,In horror clad, their baleful influence spread!Spectres most ghastly rose before my view,And every ...
What time late sate upon my closed eyes,Endued by Jove with magic influence, Slumber;Things strange my nimble Fancy did devise,Whiles ...
Lying listless in the mossesUnderneath a tree that tossesFlakes of sunshine, and embosses Its green shadow with the snow--Drowsy-eyed, I sink ...
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown,Stealthily and perpetually ...
Here's a beautiful earth and a wonderful sky,And to see them, God gives us a heart and an eye;Nor leaves ...
ABOVE them spread a stranger sky Around, the sterile plain,The rock-bound coast rose frowning nigh, Beyond,--the wrathful main:Chill remnants of the wintry ...
NIGHT is dying, dawn is hieingThrough the darkness, while I waitUnderneath your window late,Deeply dreaming, deeply sighingFor a vision fair ...
Not a dream brush your sleep,Not a thought wake and creepIn upon your spirit's slumber;Not a memory encumber,Nor a thievish ...
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
I Apollo! Apollo! Apollo!II Where hast thou, Apollo, gone? I have wandered on and on, Through the shaggy Dorian gorges, ...
"SHOULD any enquire about Eirinn, It is I who can tell him the truth, Concerning the deeds of each daring ...
As Merc'ry travell'd thro' a Wood, (Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good) An Elephant before him lay, That much ...
Give me the heavy sleep, the dreamless slumber Nor shrouded grief nor sorrow will encumber. Let me but sleep as ...
AD C. SALLUSTIUM CRISPUMHorace: Book II, Ode 2_"Nellus argento color est avaris."_Sallust, I know you of old,How you hate the ...
THE steady soaking of the rain,The bush all sad and sombre;The trees are weeping in their pain,Dank leaves the ground ...
Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
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