Ode To Melancholy (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
LO! what descending cherub, robed in light,With dazzling beams o'erwhelms the sight?Is it a Genius of th' etherial spheres?Or Angel ...
O thou, each Muse's dearest friend,Pensive Solitude, attend;With musing thought and steadfast eye,All is peace when thou art nigh;Parent of ...
"OH, thou! whose pure, exalted mind Lives in this record, fair and bright; Oh, thou! whose blameless life combin'd Soft ...
WHEN Spring luxuriant scatters new delights,The mountain's verdant slope our steps invites,To crown whose lofty brow o'er-bending treesWave their thick ...
ETERNITY! how dread thy sound!It strikes with sacred awe profound;Can I thy theme pursue?What thoughts sublime thy name conveys,What prospects ...
THREE hours ago in Seven Dials She lived awaiting all the trials That haunt her race, but now shall be ...
DECEMBER hail! a vest of snowEnwraps thy shadowy form,With aspect pale and footstep slow,Thy harbinger a storm.The sun now darts ...
Each evening on my lap there climbsA little boy of three,And with his dimpled, chubby fistsHe pounds me shamefully.He gives ...
Wine and joy are completely forgotten, As well as his armor and sword. Alone he descends in the rotten Mysterious ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
I can't ridge it back again from char. Not one board left. Only ash a cat explores and shattered glass ...
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
OH, would I resembled The country girls fair, Who rosy-red ribbons And yellow hats wear! To believe I was pretty ...
In a stable of boats I lie still, From all sleeping children hidden. The leap of a fish from its ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane, For whom no Shepherd sighs in vain; Never did Covent Garden boast So bright a batter'd, ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
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