In the Room (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
'Ceste insignefable et tragicque comedie' RABELMS.IThe sun was down, and twilight greyFilled half the air; but in the room,Whose curtain ...
'Ceste insignefable et tragicque comedie' RABELMS.IThe sun was down, and twilight greyFilled half the air; but in the room,Whose curtain ...
STRANGER.Old friend! why you seem bent on parish duty,Breaking the highway stones,--and 'tis a taskSomewhat too hard methinks for age ...
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.(Divorce is nearly obsolete in England.)No ...
How gladly, Madam, would I go,To see your Gardens, and Chateau;From thence the fine Improvements view,Or walk your verdant Avenue;Delighted, ...
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
Scene I.The great Hall of Wynhavod House. The walls hung with old portraits, arms, trophies of the chase, and a ...
I. Leave, bashfull Muse, the too hot Latian Shore, To Albions temperate Clime sail or'e; Sing Learnings Tempe, where clear ...
A fable told by La Fontaine, Two centuries or more ago, Describes some rats who would arraign A cat, their ...
For unknown ages, mid his wild abode,Speechless *nd rude the human savage trode;By slow degrees expressive sounds acquired,And simple thoughts ...
Borrow'd PlumesPrologueOf borrow'd plumes I take the sin, My extracts will applyTo some few silly songs ...
There lived a wondrous sculptor once, a genius in his way, Named Phidias Praxiteles Canova Merryday. He sat within his ...
They say that all nature is smiling and gay, And the birds the most happy of all,But the sparrow, pursued ...
A WAS the Act, Antecursor of strife,B was the Bill that had brought it to life,C was the Court, overcrowded ...
To Paint a Water Lily A green level of lily leaves Roofs the pond's chamber and paves The flies' furious ...
I have taken advantage of the publication of a Second Edition of my translation of the Poems of Goethe (originally ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
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