On the Prospect of Peace (Thomas Tickell Poems)
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
That one long dirge-moan sad and deep,Low, muffled by the solemn stressOf such emotion as doth steepThe soul in brooding ...
Ye ancient Maids, who ne'er must proveThe early joys of youth and love,Whose names grim Fate (to whom 'twas given,When ...
All on a happy summer's day When the air is warm and still,And thundery clouds are louring greyOver the landscape green ...
Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war,Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb;Th' Angel of Fate turns them ...
WHEN wing'd with gay prosperity The hours unheeded flew,A gracious God protected me From ills I never knew.Though louring skies on me ...
Fair tree of winter! fresh and flowering,When all around is dead and dry;Whose ruby buds, though storms are louring,Spread their ...
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
When the morning board with the rests of the feast Was set, and the martial kin- The vassals in chief ...
UPON THE MARKS OF ROYAL BOUNTY WHICH SHERECEIVED AT A VERY ADVANCED AGE, AFTERTHE DEATH OF HER FRIEND THE DUCHESS ...
YOU must not wonder, though you think it strange, To see me hold my louring head so low; And that ...
NOW, rallying once if ne'er again, With flag at half-mast flown, A people in dire need and strain Mans Tyra's ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of ...
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...
Ye ancient Maids, who ne'er must prove The early joys of youth and love, Whose names grim Fate (to whom ...
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the ...
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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