Prosperity And Adversity (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
PROSPERITY, with glitt'ring charms,Invites her vot'ries to her arms,In Pleasure's silken robes array'd;Of Folly's cup she bids them drink,Oft lures ...
PROSPERITY, with glitt'ring charms,Invites her vot'ries to her arms,In Pleasure's silken robes array'd;Of Folly's cup she bids them drink,Oft lures ...
In ev'ry thing that happens search you mindAnd try what force, what faculties you findFor the encounter of the object ...
ADVERSITY ! whose gloomy face Still haunts my wearied eye,What bosom can thy sorrows chase, By thee once ...
I hoped, that with the brave and strong,My portioned task might lie;To toil amid the busy throng,With purpose pure and ...
These fought in any case,and some believing,pro domo, in any case.some quick to arm,some for adventure,some from fear of weakness,some ...
We buried of our dead the dearest one-Said to each other, 'Here then let him lie,And they may find their ...
LOW down is the sun and low his rays, Which, with their roseate pressure, beauty mould In tiny caverns 'mid ...
You taught me Waiting with Myself -- Appointment strictly kept -- You taught me fortitude of Fate -- This -- ...
To undertake is to achieve Be Undertaking blent With fortitude of obstacle And toward encouragement That fine Suspicion, Natures must ...
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest Room If in that Room a Friend await Felicity or Doom ...
I LORD of the grass and hill, Lord of the rain, White Overlord of will, Master of pain, I who ...
Lord of my heart's elation, Spirit of things unseen, Be thou my aspiration Consuming and serene! Bear up, bear out, ...
O God, whose thunder shakes the sky, Whose eye this atom globe surveys, To thee, my only rock, I fly, ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
Birds have no consciousness of doom: Yon thrush that serenades me daily From scented snow of hawthorn bloom Would not ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
On The Proposalls Of Certaine Ministers At The Committee For Propagation Of The Gospell Cromwell, our cheif of men, who ...
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