On Death. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
TEll me thou safest End of all our Woe, Why wreched Mortals do avoid thee so: Thou gentle drier o'th' ...
TEll me thou safest End of all our Woe, Why wreched Mortals do avoid thee so: Thou gentle drier o'th' ...
O SORROW! Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?-- To give maiden blushes To the white ...
Think not of it, sweet one, so;--- Give it not a tear; Sigh thou mayst, and bid it go Any---anywhere. ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
While that my soul repairs to her devotion, Here I intomb my flesh, that it betimes May take acquaintance of ...
Whither, mad maiden, wilt thou roam? Far safer 'twere to stay at home; Where thou mayst sit, and piping, please ...
My dearest Love, since thou wilt go, And leave me here behind thee; For love or pity, let me know ...
I THINK of thee, whene'er the sun his beams O'er ocean flings; I think of thee, whene'er the moonlight gleams ...
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about to commence its festive procession. [Written for the birthday of ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman's arrow came, and reft His right wing of ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
I How should I seek to make a song for thee When all my music is to moan thy name? ...
I How should I seek to make a song for thee When all my music is to moan thy name? ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by ...
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 ...
I. It is a lie---their Priests, their Pope, Their Saints, their ... all they fear or hope Are lies, ...
A PICTURE AT FANO. I. Dear and great Angel, wouldst thou only leave That child, when thou hast done with ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say 'I love ...
1 O! Solitude, my sweetest choice Places devoted to the night, Remote from tumult, and from noise, How you my ...
Adieu dear object of my Love's excess, And with thee all my hopes of happiness, With the same fervent and ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
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