Temptation (William Cowper Poem)
The billows swell, the winds are high, Clouds overcast my wintry sky; Out of the depths to Thee I call, ...
The billows swell, the winds are high, Clouds overcast my wintry sky; Out of the depths to Thee I call, ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Its mother being tethered near it Poor little Foal of an oppress?d race! I love the languid patience of thy ...
Then call me traitor if you must, Shout reason and default! Say I betray a sacred trust Aching beyond this ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
SHE knelt upon her brother's grave, My little girl of six years old-- He used to be so good and ...
Be still, thou unregenerate part, Disturb no more my settled heart, For I have vow'd (and so will do) Thee ...
In secret place where once I stood Close by the Banks of Lacrim flood, I heard two sisters reason on ...
Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably A trick that everyone abhors In little girls is slamming doors. A ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
A MIDDLE-AGE INTERLUDE. ROSA MUNDI; SEU, FULCITE ME FLORIBUS. A CONCEIT OF MASTER GYSBRECHT, CANON-REGULAR OF SAID JODOCUS-BY-THE-BAR, YPRES CITY. ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
A PICTURE AT FANO. I. Dear and great Angel, wouldst thou only leave That child, when thou hast done with ...
Chorus.-Blythe, blythe and merry was she, Blythe was she but and ben; Blythe by the banks of Earn, And blythe ...
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea ...
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