The Minstrel ; Or, The Progress Of Genius – Book II. (James Beattie Poems)
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
I.Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climbThe steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!Ah! who can tell ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
Your footsteps now the arsenals have trodWhere lie the treasures of the warrior God;Yet 'midst his ranks to serve is ...
The troops of ALMAGRO and ALPHONSO meet on the plain of CUZCO —. MANCO -CAPAC attacks them by nights—His army ...
WHILE o'er the Alpine cliffs I musing stray'd, And gaz'd on nature, in her charms severe,The last soft beam of parting ...
I.Forbear this liquid fire, Fly,It is more fatal then the dry,That singly, but embracing, wounds;And this at once both burns ...
Millions of feet entraversed here,Where are their parted spirits?Each in a dark or glorious sphereHis own reward inherits:Where they have ...
Evermore the night wave beateth on,Heavily dashing up the pebbled shore;Evermore the silent stars look on;--Evermore the spent wave draweth ...
I awoke at a breath, and looked out on the world's wan face While the dew like a death-damp hung ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
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