Sonnet : In Gravest Toils (John Moultrie Poems)
In gravest toils, at war with phantasy,Nine years, nine mortal years, have swiftly past,Since my then youthful Muse unfolded lastHer ...
In gravest toils, at war with phantasy,Nine years, nine mortal years, have swiftly past,Since my then youthful Muse unfolded lastHer ...
CAPTURE OF THE SAMPO.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,With the blacksmith, Ilmarinen,With the reckless son of Lempo,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,On the sea's smooth ...
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
INever and never, my girl riding far and nearIn the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep,Fear or believe ...
(PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO, 1800)ILooking seaward, o'er the sand-hills stands the fortress, old and quaint,By the San Francisco friars lifted ...
A fable told by La Fontaine, Two centuries or more ago, Describes some rats who would arraign A cat, their ...
Hence a while, severer Muses;Spare your slaves till drear October.Hence; for Alma Mater choosesNot to be for ever sober:But, like ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
Oh! bright are the names of the chieftains and sages,That shine like the stars through the darkness of ages,Whose deeds ...
"So closed our tale, of which I give you allThe random scheme as wildly as it rose:The words are mostly ...
The sun, which doth the greatest comfort bring To absent friends (because the self-same thing They know they see, however ...
In stillest prayers and hours of holy thought Thy spirit, dearest of the Martyr band! Long time hath been with ...
THE bow of promise, this lost flaring star, Terror and hope are in mid-heaven; but She, The mighty-wing'd crown'd Lady ...
Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, And hied away to the Hurrum Hills ...
It was the pleasant season yet, When the stones at cottage doors Dry quickly, while the roads are wet, After ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
In elder days, in Saturn's prime, Ere baldness seized the head of Time, While truant Jove, in infant pride, Play'd ...
So closed our tale, of which I give you all The random scheme as wildly as it rose: The words ...
Not in the crisis of events Of compass'd hopes, or fears fulfill'd, Or acts of gravest consequence, Are life's delight ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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