Hudibras: Part 3 – Canto III (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENTThe Knight and squire's prodigious FlightTo quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT' a ...
THE ARGUMENTThe Knight and squire's prodigious FlightTo quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT' a ...
This time our boat passing too nigh the land,The whirling stream did make her run on sand;Aluif, we cry'd, but ...
SIR MAURICE was a wealthy lord,He liv'd in the north countrie,Well would he cope with foe-man's sword,Or the glance of ...
FOUR times the sun had risen and set; and now on the fifth dayCheerily called the cock to the sleeping ...
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
The clouds that wrap the setting sun When Autumn's softest gleams are ending,Where all bright hues together run In sweet confusion blending: ...
As some spent gladiator, struck by Death, Whose reeling vision scarce a foe defines, For one last effort gathers all his breath, England ...
Hee that seekes gold, or pearle, must delve, or dive, And descend toward Hell: Thus things, for which the world doth chiefely ...
Mount -- mount for the hunting -- with musket and spear!Call our friends to the field -- for the Lion ...
IIn warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood:I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.Above ...
Sadly, deeply grieving, wondering,At the diplomatic blundering,Powerless to prevent the thundering, On Denmark's leaguer'd shore,Brave Denmark! in her fated hour,Will not ...
"So was their sanctuary violated,So their fair college turned to hospital;At first with all confusion: by and bySweet order lived ...
What deep wounds ever clos'd without a scar?The heart's bleed longest, and but heal to wearThat which disfigures it. ...
Time, wouldst thou hurt us? Never shall we grow old. Break as thou wilt these bodies of blind clay, ...
What is more large than knowledge and more sweet;Knowledge of thoughts and deeds, of rights and wrongs,Of passions and of ...
Lo, my book thinks to look Time's leaguer down,Under the banner of your spread renown!Or if these levies of impuissant ...
Long I followed happy guides,- I could never reach their sides. Their step is forth, and, ere the day, Breaks ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Vulcan, contrive me such a cup As Nestor used of old; Show all thy skill to trim it up, Damask ...
So was their sanctuary violated, So their fair college turned to hospital; At first with all confusion: by and by ...
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