Vanity Of The Creature Sanctified (John Newton Poems)
Honey though the bee prepares,An envenomed sting he wears;Piercing thorns a guard composeRound the fragrant blooming rose.Where we think to ...
Honey though the bee prepares,An envenomed sting he wears;Piercing thorns a guard composeRound the fragrant blooming rose.Where we think to ...
Since we must sleep the endless Sleep at last,Since Life's grim juggernaut 'neath ruthless wheelsCrushes the heart; since Age like ...
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
ACT IV.SCENE I. The City Hall at Nordhausen. Deputies and Burghers assembling. To the right, at a table near the ...
HIM, wounded, shackled, pricked with spears,they dragged and goaded through thetown.Up the soaked hill 'neath dripping boughs, acrosssteep ditches slipping ...
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear,Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear.She was so ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
Now Joi, the rebel, he had a son In far, far Gosh where the tall trees wave.Said Joi: "In Gosh ...
How long, ah me! this weary heart hath strivenWith vanity, and with a wild desire!How long, and yet how long, ...
Henry was every morning fedWith a full mess of milk and bread.One day the boy his breakfast took,And eat it ...
Beauty like hers is genius. Not the callOf Homer's or of Dante's heart sublime,-Not Michael's hand furrowing the zones of ...
I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from far. Ivory their outposts were--the ...
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
Composed of chalk dust, Pencil shavings and The sharp odour Of stale urine; It meets me now and then Creeping ...
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear, Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear. She ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
I reached the highest place in Spoon River, But through what bitterness of spirit! The face of my father, sitting ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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