Painful Anxiety (Christian Milne Poems)
SINCE WILLIAM cross'd the roaring seas,I cannot taste a moment's ease;Imagination's busy trainPresents him buried in the main!At times, I ...
SINCE WILLIAM cross'd the roaring seas,I cannot taste a moment's ease;Imagination's busy trainPresents him buried in the main!At times, I ...
SHE fluted with her mouth as when one sips,And gently waved her golden head, inclin'dOutside his cage close to the ...
You make yourself contemptible and mean,A member of the rabble, if obsceneIn conversation; wherefore when you findSome one to lewd ...
Once on a time I fair Dorinda kiss'd, Whose nose was too distinguish'd to be miss'd; My dear, says I, ...
WITHIN a town where parity According to old form we see,-- That is to say, where Catholic And Protestant no ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
Why was that baleful Creature made, Which seeks our Quiet to invade, And screams ill Omens through the Shade? 'Twas, ...
Into these Loves who but for Passion looks, At this first sight here let him lay them by And seek ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
Ho, ye lovers, list to me; Warning words have I for thee: Give ye heed, hefore ye wed, To this ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
Once on a time I fair Dorinda kiss'd, Whose nose was too distinguish'd to be miss'd; My dear, says I, ...
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
This holy season, fit to fast and pray, Men to devotion ought to be inclin'd: Therefore I likewise on so ...
WHERE on the bosom of the foamy RHINE, In curling waves the rapid waters shine; Where tow'ring cliffs in awful ...
BLEST be thy song, sweet NIGHTINGALE, Lorn minstrel of the lonely vale ! Where oft I've heard thy dulcet strain ...
Here droops the muse! while from her glowing mind, Celestial Sympathy, with humid eye, Bids the light Sylph capricious Fancy ...
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