To His Royal Highness The Duke Of York (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
FROM the recesses of this wild domain,Where artless truth and simple manners reign,The blushing Muse conveys the humble pleaOf modest ...
FROM the recesses of this wild domain,Where artless truth and simple manners reign,The blushing Muse conveys the humble pleaOf modest ...
Base is the purpose of this Epic Song,Baneful its powers: but, oh, the Poesy("What can it less when Sun-born GENIUS ...
On Water-Gruel, by Desire; occasioned by a singular Adventure.Hail! Water-Gruel, ever sacred Name,Once so propitious to my genial Flame;O! be ...
Originally called the Place de Louis Seize,--next the Place de laRevolution, where the perpetual guillotine stood. PROUD Seine, along thy ...
Proud Seine, along thy winding ...
'TIS painful to a Briton's eyes,To see a tyrant in disguiseUsurping LOUIS ' throne;While Peers and Prelates round him crowd,And ...
When long thick Tempests waste the Plain And Lightnings cleave an angry Sky, Sorrow invades each anxious Swain- ...
In revolutionary France, (During that bloody scene,)Whose head cut off and heart torn out.With brutal rage were shown about,First ...
PEACE ! with thy placid mien,Who'st long a stranger beenTo Freedom's sons on Britain's rocky shore--O come! and with thee ...
JANUARY 18 , 1816. BEFORE thine Altar, God of Peace,Thy grateful people bend:Thou bid'st again fell carnage cease,And War's dread ...
THOU, whose mild radiance all adore,O let not human-kind deploreThe loss of thy propitious smile:Why, Goddess, in such wild affright,Wilt ...
SEE how Britannia droops her head,This gloomy hour she sees,And weeps to find AUGUSTUS laidDepriv'd of health and ease.She anxious ...
"Dear Anna, why that falling tear, Dost weep, my love, because we part? My constancy thou need'st not fear; Thy ...
Sadly dejected, fair Britannia sat,Imploring thus the Genius of her State,Rise to my Aid, she cry'd, some Hero rise,Protect my ...
WITH AIKIN'S ESSAY ON SONG-WRITINGTo Gallia's gay and gallant coastHaste, little volume, speed thy flight;And proudly there go make thy ...
GOD save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings so dear: Let them be spread around ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
BEAUTY, the attribute of Heaven! In various forms to mortals given, With magic skill enslaves mankind, As sportive fancy sways ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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