Of Verbal Criticism (David Mallet Poems)
Among the numerous fools, by Fate design'd Oft to disturb, and oft divert, mankind, The reading coxcomb is of special ...
Among the numerous fools, by Fate design'd Oft to disturb, and oft divert, mankind, The reading coxcomb is of special ...
A tall brave man of gray three score,The sable columns rode before,The knightliest of the knightly throng,The bravest of the ...
Incipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti.Almighty and al merciable queene,To whom that al this world fleeth for socour,To have relees ...
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
_HARCOMBE NEAR LYME_September: 1878 Before me with one happy heave Of golden green the hillside curves, ...
Five nights agone I lay at rest On my suburban couch.My trousers on the bedpost hung, Red gold within their ...
Late one evening I was sitting, gloomy shadows roundMe flitting,-- Mrs. Partington, a-knitting occupied the grate before;Suddenly I heard a ...
You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave, Fill it with mercy for ...
I saw it in my evening walkA little lonely flower —Under a hollow bank it grewDeep in a mossy bower.An ...
Not for vague honors, not for treacherous power He lived and toiled thro' this, his earthy span;But to uphold and ...
Ah, well, the thing that lived lives on, And who are we to say it nay?When Vandal and when Goth ...
Wynter wakeneth al my care,Nou thise leves waxeth bare;Ofte I sike and mourne sareWhen hit cometh in my thohtOf this ...
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
London, thou art of town{.e}s A per se. Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight, Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie; ...
When I am dead, and doctors know not why, And my friends' curiosity Will have me cut up to survey ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
Rome! what a scroll of History thine has been; In the first days thy sword republican Ruled the whole world ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on ...
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