Sonnet XX: An Evil Spirit (Michael Drayton Poem)
An evil spirit, your beauty haunts me still, Wherewith, alas, I have been long possest, Which ceaseth not to tempt ...
An evil spirit, your beauty haunts me still, Wherewith, alas, I have been long possest, Which ceaseth not to tempt ...
From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay And could ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Late Servant to his Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster I Mark how the ...
O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, -- Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays, Whose amorous light enfolds ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
The Months have ends -- the Years -- a knot -- No Power can untie To stretch a little further ...
The Bird her punctual music brings And lays it in its place -- Its place is in the Human Heart ...
Time out of mind I have stood Fronting the frost and the sun, That the dream of the world might ...
Almighty Framer of the Skies! O let our pure devotion rise, Like Incense in thy Sight! Wrapt in impenetrable Shade ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His ...
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't ...
Among the orchard weeds, from every search, Snugly and sure, the old hen's nest is made, Who cackles every morning ...
How sweet and pleasant grows the way Through summer time again While Landrails call from day to day Amid the ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
The faithless shadows of day are running And high and clear is the call of bells, Steps of the church ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
Come, take our boy, and we will go Before our cabin door; The winds shall bring us, as they blow, ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
Thou Power! who hast ruled me through Infancy's days, Young offspring of Fancy, 'tis time we should part; Then rise ...
When sorrow lays us low for a second we are saved by humble windfalls of the mindfulness or memory: the ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
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