The Lay Of Marie – Canto First (Matilda Betham Poems)
The guests are met, the feast is near, But Marie does not yet appear! And to her vacant seat on high Is lifted ...
The guests are met, the feast is near, But Marie does not yet appear! And to her vacant seat on high Is lifted ...
Thy bounties, Love, in thy soft raptures, whenTimeliest the melting pairs indulge, and howBest to improve the genial joy, how ...
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
The clouds that wrap the setting sun When Autumn's softest gleams are ending,Where all bright hues together run In sweet confusion blending: ...
I.Birds of omen dark and foul,Night-crow, raven, bat, and owl,Leave the sick man to his dream -All night long he ...
MISFORTUNE'S stings transfix the purest heart,And souls, unknown to guilt, with anguish smart.Not virtue can secure the good man's state,Nor ...
SONG I.WILD wing my notes, fierce passions urge the strain; Strong flame the fires that kindle in my soul; I ...
Thou see'st her pictured with her shining hair, (Famed were those tresses in Provencal song,)Half braided, half o'er cheek and ...
A TALE. JACK HARDY long for lovely NANCY Had sigh'd sincere, on sea and shore;She danc'd, she sung, she drest ...
"AH! poor negro Sadi, what sorrows, what anguish Oppress the lone victim fate dooms for a slave! What eye or ...
Fair Estelle.* * * * *Tho' all neglected now, the time hath beenWhen yon wide pleasaunce was the loveliest scene;When ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
"O CAM ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep wi' me, man? Or were ye at the ...
MY father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O, And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O; ...
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