To The Memory Of Thomas Chatterton. (Anne Hunter Poems)
ILL-fated youth! thy ardent soulAim'd at the heights of deathless fame,Sprang from beneath the world's controul,And seiz'd unknown a poet's ...
ILL-fated youth! thy ardent soulAim'd at the heights of deathless fame,Sprang from beneath the world's controul,And seiz'd unknown a poet's ...
True, she was sweet, and lovely in thine eyes, Like some fair flower that blooms awhile, and dies: Yet O ...
All yesterday the sea was sapphire fair, And the waves told, with little rippling glees, Of ships that sailed, ...
ILL-FATED genius! Heaven-taught Fergusson! What heart that feels and will not yield a tear, To think Life's sun did set ...
Mirth the halls of Troy was filling, Ere its lofty ramparts fell; From the golden lute so thrilling Hymns of ...
Let ancient stories round the painter's art, Who stole from many a maid his Venus' charms, Till warm devotion fired ...
High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills, O'er-topping the grand imag'ry of Nature, Where one eternal winter seem'd to reign; ...
"WHEN will my troubled soul have rest?" The beauteous LEWIN cried; As thro' the murky shade of night With frantic ...
"Fate snatch'd him early to the pitying sky." - POPE. IF WORTH, too early to the grave consign'd, Can claim ...
SWIFT o'er the bounding deep the VESSEL glides, Its streamers flutt'ring in the summer gales, The lofty mast the breezy ...
O! How can LOVE exulting Reason queil! How fades each nobler passion from his gaze! E'en Fame, that cherishes the ...
SWEET PICTURE of Life's chequer'd hour! Ah, wherefore droop thy blushing head? Tell me, oh tell me, hap'less flow'r, Is ...
O if it's true that in the night, When rest the living in their havens And liquid rays of lunar ...
Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry, And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry And ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken ...
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with ...
A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold, About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold; Who struggled hard in the ...
As vanquish'd Erin wept beside The Boyne's ill-fated river, She saw where Discord, in the tide, Had dropp'd his loaded ...
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