Anacreontics, Drinking (Abraham Cowley Poems)
THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, ...
THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, ...
They are the ghosts of flowers, The blossoms of fairer hours, I see on the window-pane! They died in woodland ...
ALL hail! ye frowning terrors of my way,Rude Grampian mountains! crown'd with lasting snow,No flow'ry vales, or plains with verdure ...
Fade away each wild emotion; Every care and sorrow cease;Breathing silent, calm devotion Rest each soul ...
Jesus, gentlest Savior,God of might and power,thou thyself art dwellingin us at this hour.Nature cannot hold thee,heaven is all too ...
The shell of objects inwardly consumed Will stand, till some convulsive wind awakes; Such sense hath Fire to waste the ...
LIGHT and silv'ry cloudlets hover In the air, as yet scarce warm; Mild, with glimmer soft tinged over, Peeps the ...
'MIDST the noise of merriment and glee, 'Midst full many a sorrow, many a care, Charlotte, I remember, we remember ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
NO churchman am I for to rail and to write, No statesman nor soldier to plot or to fight, No ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed, And men still hear what the sweet cry saith, Crying aloud in thine ...
The goblet is sparkling with purpled-tinged wine, Bright glistens the eye of each guest, When into the hall comes the ...
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
I weep for Adonais--he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
Bonnie Clara, will you go to the bonnie Sidlaw hills And pu' the blooming heather, and drink from their rills? ...
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