Concluding Tale, In The Style Of Alphonso The Brave And Fair Imogene. (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
WHEN evening's pale light had retired from the plain,And night had the valley o'erspread;When the dew was converted to big ...
WHEN evening's pale light had retired from the plain,And night had the valley o'erspread;When the dew was converted to big ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid,In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid;The fertile subject never will be dry:'Tis ...
Why openest thou afresh the spring ofmy grief, O son of Alpin, inquiringhow Oscur fell? My eyes are blind withtears; ...
Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian,Prince of men! what tears run downthe cheeks of age? what shades thymighty soul?Memory, son ...
Thou askest, fair daughter of theisles! whose memory is preservedin these tombs? The memory of Ronnanthe bold, and Connan the ...
SAID a beau to his friend, who resides on Brook Green,"Oh, Charles! near your house I've a new beauty seen!Her ...
A MONKEY-TRIBE that lately bred, By some odd chance in Britain's isle,When comb'd and drest, and wash'd and fed, With lap-dogs shar'd ...
Too long hath love engross'd Britannia's stage,And sunk to softness all our tragic rage:By that alone did empires fall or ...
UNFELT , unseen, time steals away,So softly with our years,The dewy gem of op'ning dayNot swifter disappears.In childhood's thoughtless, laughing ...
In vain, Orinda on my Aid,And weaker Judgment you rely;Too rashly Fair--one, you perswadeA Mortal to correct the Sky.To me, ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
'Twas on the morning of that fateful day When Cyrus met on Thymbra's spacious plain The mighty host by wealthy ...
It was on Burray's seabeat Isle,Where Fairies dwelt in days of yore,That Richard's lowly cottage stood,Near where old Neptune's briny ...
COME , then, explore with me each winding glen,Far from the noisy haunts of busy men;Let us with stedfast eye ...
No charms she now can boast,--'tis true,But other charmers wither too:"And she is old,"--the fact I know,And old will other ...
ONE morn, when Twilight, matron grey,Hung fondly yet o'er infant Day,Sudden, with tempered radiance bright,Throughout the Hall a rosy lightBeams ...
Go, let the fatted calf be kill'd; My prodigal's come home at last,With noble resolutions fill'd, ...
NO sooner I pronounced Celindas name, But Troops of wing'd Pow'rs did chant the fame: Not those the Poets Bows ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
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