Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto I. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
Preface.Hark, dying mortal, if the Sonnet proveA song of living and immortal love,'Tis then thy grand concern the theme to ...
Part One[A walled garden of York. It is an August Sunday, and the baying of deep church-bells is blown faintly ...
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
Miss Guinevere PlattWas so beautiful thatShe couldn't remember the dayWhen one of her swainsHadn't taken the painsTo send her a ...
I.The times are changed, and gone the dayWhen the high heavenly land,Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,And men could understand.The ...
"Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,Forget the spreading of the hideous town."—The Earthly ParadiseYes, William Morris, it were well ...
Thin as hair are the shadows of sunsetWhen they follow drawn-out every tree.On the road through the forest the post-girlHands ...
More and more her papers are about her calling her sermons and her epistles to the churches, to the non-believers ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. (Ambrose Bierce)
The Holy Scriptures. Heb. 1:1,2; 2 Tim. 3:15,16; Psa. 147:19,20. God, who in various methods told His mind and will ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
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