Sonnet – II (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
AGAIN around Britannia's pensive browBright Glory binds the fresh though blood-stain'd wreath,And thickly weaves it, as to hide beneathThe tears ...
AGAIN around Britannia's pensive browBright Glory binds the fresh though blood-stain'd wreath,And thickly weaves it, as to hide beneathThe tears ...
"THOU, bright Futurity! whose prospect beams, In dawning radiance on our day-light dreams; Whose lambent meteors and ethereal forms Gild ...
Too long have Tyranny and Power combined,To sway, with iron sceptre, o'er mankind;Long has Oppression worn th' imperial robe,And Rapine's ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
A TALE, FROM MARMONTEL'S INCAS OF PERUWHEN o'er the western world IBERIA'S bandsWith blood and rapine stain'd their guilty hands;When ...
Alpha and Omega, sadness and mirth, The springing music, and its wasting breath--The fairest things in life are Death and ...
HAPPY the land, round which the ocean flows,Whose ebbing waves its fertile soil compose.The shepherd fearless leads his flocks to ...
Celestial Muse that on the blissful plainArt oft invok'd, to guide th' immortal strain;Inspir'd by thee, the first-born sons of ...
I.Ye subjects of Britain, attend to my ...
ON READING ONE UPON THE SAME SUBJECT BY PROFESSORRICHARDSON OF GLASGOW. WHAT voice awakes the soul-afflicting themeThat oft with ...
AND THE DEATH OF LORD NELSON. HIGH on a rock, whose craggy browO'erlooks the subject main below,Her throne Britannia rears;And ...
On Water-Gruel, by Desire; occasioned by a singular Adventure.Hail! Water-Gruel, ever sacred Name,Once so propitious to my genial Flame;O! be ...
"YE who burn with glory's flame! Ye who love the Patriot's fame; Ye who scorn oppressive might, Rise! in freedom's ...
THOU, whose mild radiance all adore,O let not human-kind deploreThe loss of thy propitious smile:Why, Goddess, in such wild affright,Wilt ...
"SUCCESS to the heroes of gallant Castile, Undaunted in danger, victorious in fight! May they teach proud oppressors and tyrants ...
Sadly dejected, fair Britannia sat,Imploring thus the Genius of her State,Rise to my Aid, she cry'd, some Hero rise,Protect my ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Inscribed to Colonel Banastre Tarleton] TRANSCENDENT VALOUR! godlike Pow'r! Lord of the dauntless breast, and stedfast mien! Who, rob'd in ...
Sublime was the warning that liberty spoke, And grand was the moment when Spaniards awoke Into life and revenge from ...
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