The Borough. Letter XXIV: Schools (George Crabbe Poems)
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
The sun is up, the hour has come for starting, O my steed! A moment wait till I pass my ...
My country, I the walls, the arches see, The columns, statues, and the towers Deserted, of our ancestors; But, ah, ...
I KNEW a stream,'twas yonder, where, Now bleak and bare,There was a covert once of ...
I Brag, sweet tenor bull, descant on Rawthey's madrigal, each pebble its part for the fells' late spring. Dance tiptoe, ...
SILVER Empress of the night,Smiling Cynthia chaste and bright,Listen to my artless lays,While I bless thy friendly rays.Solemn grandeur gilds ...
Wilt thou not the lambkins guard? Oh, how soft and meek they look,Feeding on the grassy sward, Sporting round the ...
Written in the prison Infirmary, February, 1850. To a quiet land I'm steering; Steering ever, day and night;A sailor-wreck ...
Why is the heaven-descended mind(For nobler purposes design'd)So close attach'd to frail unthinking clay?Fain would she taste the joys of ...
SOFTLY , Evening shades the skies,Quick the golden lustre flies;Calm we see the day retire,While Evening's sober thoughts inspire.Pensive pleasures ...
Threefold is the march of time While the future slow advances, Like a dart the present glances,Silent stands the past ...
Wish not that things, not in your pow'r, may runAs you would have them; wish them as they're done;Wish them ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
I. HEre take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
Wilt thou not the lambkins guard? Oh, how soft and meek they look, Feeding on the grassy sward, Sporting round ...
Threefold is the march of time While the future slow advances, Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the ...
NEAR yon bleak mountain's dizzy height, That hangs o'er AVON's silent wave; By the pale Crescent's glimm'ring light, I sought ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain, pray list to me, And I'll tell ye of a great victory. Where the British ...
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