Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto II. (Matthew Prior Poems)
But shall we take the Muse abroad,To drop her idly on the road,And leave our subject in the middle,As Butler ...
But shall we take the Muse abroad,To drop her idly on the road,And leave our subject in the middle,As Butler ...
Behind an unfrequented glade,Where yew and myrtle mix their shade,A widow Turtle pensive sat,And wept her murder'd lover's fate.The Sparrow ...
Whose counted smile of hours and days, supposeI know as spectrum of the sea and pledgeVastly now parting gulf on ...
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
As I enter the theatre the play is going on. I hear the father say to the son on stage, ...
...Having dug out treachery beneath meI end something of life in ending mecum-vade, Made up of a hundred pearls threaded ...
The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do, ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
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