To Harriet H—-y (Charlotte Eliza Dixon Poems)
On her bed of protracted and lingering sickness. ONCE again, long silent lyre,Sound beneath this weary finger,Speak--but breathe with holy ...
On her bed of protracted and lingering sickness. ONCE again, long silent lyre,Sound beneath this weary finger,Speak--but breathe with holy ...
THUS Tapistry of old, the Walls adorn'd, Ere noblest Dames the artful Shuttle scorn'd: Arachne, then, with Pallas did contest, ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
SAW ye that spinster gaunt and grey, Whose aspect stern might well dismay A bombardier stout-hearted? The golden hair, the ...
Rachel, the beautiful (as she was called),Despised our mother Leah, for that she Was tender-ey'd, lean-favor'd, and did lack The ...
FROM yon fair hill, whose woody crest The mantling hand of spring has dress'd, Where gales imbibe the May-perfume, And ...
YOUR jealous walls, great Duke, in vainAll access would refuse;What walls can Highland steps restrain?What bars keep out the Muse?Where'er ...
O precious codex, volume, tome, Book, writing, compilation, workAttend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a ...
FIRST mention that land where the Nile, overflowing,Spreads beauty, and health, and fertility round,Then think of that region, where torrid ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
Time feels so vast that were it not For an Eternity -- I fear me this Circumference Engross my Finity ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
The Saviour, what a noble flame Was kindled in his breast, When hasting to Jerusalem, He march'd before the rest. ...
I I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so. ...
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! Is't ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride ...
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...
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