On the Bill Which Was Passed in England For Regulating the Slave-Trade (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
The hollow winds of night no moreIn wild, unequal cadence pour,On musing fancy's wakeful ear,The groan of agony severeFrom yon ...
The hollow winds of night no moreIn wild, unequal cadence pour,On musing fancy's wakeful ear,The groan of agony severeFrom yon ...
Chill and mirk is the nightly blast, Where Pindus' mountains rise,And angry clouds are pouring fast The vengeance of the skies.Our guides ...
AGED THREE YEARS AND A HALFDeep in thy round blue eyesAsleep thy spirit lies,Or half-awake and wanton in its play,As ...
1.SACRED Retirement! friend to ev'ry muse,Come, aid my pen, a flow'ry wreath to weave,Gay fancy, deck it with thy brightest ...
Long night succeeds thy little day;Oh blighted blossom! can it be,That this grey stone, and grassy clay,Have clos'd our anxious ...
Scene: --A MADHOUSE.Persons: --VISITOR, PHYSICIAN, AND PATIENT."Veris miscens falsa." SENECA. ------------------- ...
IN Gallia's kingdom, near a forest wild,There liv'd a peasant, and his only child;A female, to whom Nature, most unkind,Had ...
ADOWN yon fair sequester'd valeA silver stream meandering flows;Thick on its banks the primrose pale,And sweet the azure violet blows.Around ...
BENEATH a father's roof two brethren dwelt,And each domestic comfort truly felt;What farther pleasure could their souls require?The happy sons ...
AGAIN the wood and long-withdrawing valeIn many a tint of tender green are drest,Where the young leaves, unfolding, scarce concealBeneath ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
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