Vision Of Columbus – Book 9 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Now, round the yielding canopy of shade,Again the Guide his heavenly power display'd.Sudden, the stars their trembling fires withdrew,Returning splendors ...
Now, round the yielding canopy of shade,Again the Guide his heavenly power display'd.Sudden, the stars their trembling fires withdrew,Returning splendors ...
Naval action of De Grasse and Graves. Capture of Cornwallis..Thus view'd the sage. When, lo, in eastern skies,From glooms unfolding, ...
When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,Abroad when dreaded, and beloved at home,He saw ...
Tune — "Lady Isabella's Tragedy." or "The Stepmother's cruelty."Of Nero, tyrant, petty king,Who heretofore did reignIn famed Hibernia, I will ...
As when the sun above a dusky wold,Springs into sight and turns the gloom to gold,Lights with his magic beams ...
Say, my Hortensia, in this silent Hour,When the pale Queen of Night exerts her Pow'r,What Guardian--Angels on thy Slumbers wait,To ...
Bring the Harp of the West, and the Pipes of the North,When our Trumpet note calls to the field;Let the ...
A Curious Statue, we are told,Is priz'd above its Weight in Gold;If the fair Form the Hand confessOf Phidias, or ...
Obrian, were in Story told,Thy Ancestors wore Crowns of old:In fair Hibernia's Isle they reign'd;A Country, by their Sons disdain'd!Too ...
Where--e'er you go, some Actions still we hear,Which make the Goodness of your Mind appear.Hibernia early saw those Seeds of ...
Hither, amongst the Crouds, that shunThe smoaky Town, and sultry Sun,In cooling Springs to seek for Health,Or throw away superfluous ...
Not Persia's Monarch could, unmov'd, surveyThose num'rous Hosts, which Time must sweep away:He wept Misfortunes of a distant Date;I mourn ...
In vain you shew a happy Nation,The Gospel's gracious Dispensation;And plead from thence, to bring up YouthTo early Piety and ...
This Present from a lovely Dame,Fair and unsully'd, as her Fame,Shall to Hibernia be convey'd,Where once, rever'd, her Father sway'd;And ...
BRITANNIA.Wretched Britannia! Hapless and undone! How have my Follies call'd this Vengeance down, And anger'd Heav'n to so severe a ...
NOW seated secure round this bright cheery fire,A ditty from me why so earnest require?A tale full of horrors, you ...
Ruggiero, to amaze the British host, And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks, The bridle of his winged courser ...
Lonely and sadly one night in November I laid down my weary head in search of reposeOn my ...
LET a Parisian prelate lead the vanOf worthies now advancing on the stage;Surely 'twas his own mind the pious manPourtray'd, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Ruggiero, to amaze the British host, And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks, The bridle of his winged courser ...
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