The Destruction Of Troy (John Denham Poems)
AN ESSAY ON THE SECOND BOOK OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS,THE ARGUMENT.The first book speaks of Aeneas's voyage by sea, and how, ...
AN ESSAY ON THE SECOND BOOK OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS,THE ARGUMENT.The first book speaks of Aeneas's voyage by sea, and how, ...
THE ARGUMENTThe Knight and squire's prodigious FlightTo quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT' a ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
BLEST were those days! Can these dull ages boastAught to compare? though now no more beguile,Chain'd in their darkling depths, ...
The flowers still bloom in fair Ionia's isles ;On Marathon the summer sun still smiles ;The zephyr in the balmy ...
Troy Town is covered up with weeds,The rabbits and the pismires broodOn broken gold, and shards, and beadsWhere Priam's ancient ...
Spoken in the character of Steady.Written by Constantia, in 1790.Ladies, and gentlemen, a moment stay,And give good nature its accustom'd ...
GRECIANS ! ye know what spot,Decides to-day your lot--Thermopyl(Joanna Baillie)
O had he first been swept away,Through air by wild winds tossed,Or sunk from Heaven's ethereal ray,To Pluto's dreary coast.Who ...
THE sun, whom Grecians Helms call,His heavenly path with pride doth tread,And, to subdue the world's wide all,Looks round, beneath ...
Nowe warlike Hector doth depart with Paris out the towne,They willing both in armes to shewe some deede of great ...
When Greeks and Trojans fell at strife,And lords in armour bright were seen,When many a gallant lost his lifeUlysses, general ...
Horatio, of ideal courage vain,Was flourishing in air his father's cane,And, as the fumes of valour swelled his pate,Now thought ...
The butterfly the ancient Grecians made The soul's fair emblem, and its only name-- But of the soul, escaped the ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
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