To a Friend, on the Death of a Relative. (Mather Byles Poems)
While Death his awful Triumphs spreads around,And crowded Nations fill the vaulted Ground;While ev'ry Rank, and State, and Sex, and ...
While Death his awful Triumphs spreads around,And crowded Nations fill the vaulted Ground;While ev'ry Rank, and State, and Sex, and ...
1.THOU sainted Spirit! from the realms of lightLook down propitious on thy child below,Direct my thoughts, and guide my steps ...
Now has bright Sol fulfill'd his circling course, Again to Taurus roll'd his burning car, Since, cruel Prudence, thy resistless force Tore me ...
THE rising moon look'd clear and mild,In chasten'd tints of glowing eve,And bright the early morning smil'd;It flatter'd only to ...
ONCE more the mighty angel, who unfoldsTime's ample page to our astonish'd view,Has turn'd unseen, with quick and silent hand,Another ...
AH! why did no foreboding fear foretelThe dire misfortune which I now deplore?Why, dearest Charlotte, when I said farewell ,Did ...
THE worst of tortures fate can findTo lacerate the feeling mind,And rob the soul of rest,Is, when its adverse laws ...
THEE, verdant plant, with joy I greet,And welcome too my roof;Thy fragrant leaves appear more sweet,From being friendship's proof!And as ...
DOWN sunk the sun, nor shed one golden ray, But rising mists shut in the low'ring day: The tides o'erflown ...
Svend Vonved sits in his lonely bower;He strikes his harp with a hand of power;His harp return'd a responsive din;Then ...
WHAT blest design in Albion's Council moves,Which earth with pleasure views, and heav'n approves?'Tis a design humanely just and kind,Worthy ...
A SHEPHERD from a mountain's steepBeheld a little wand'ring sheep;With anxious eye he watch'd it long,Creeping the briars and thorns ...
A GOTHIC BALLAD. MOURNING muse, record a ditty,Of two tender lovers dear:A heart of marble sure must pity,The woes of ...
Not always o'er the meads and hills, From low'ring clouds, the rain distils, Nor storms with endless uproar sweep The ...
THE EVENING BEFORE A JOURNEY.DEAR spot, where rests the mould'ring clay Of her I lov'd, farewell!My pangs these falling ...
Tho' youth may boast the curls that flow,In sunny waves of auburn glow;As graceful on thy hoary head,Has time the ...
I clomb in haste my dappled steed,And gallop'd far o'er mount and mead;And when the day drew nigh its close,I ...
RESPECTED Lady! whilst thy heartStill feels the recent wound,Some solace might the Muse impart,Or breath one soothing sound!Though early mingled ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
WAE worth thy power, thou cursed leaf! Fell source o' a' my woe and grief! For lack o' thee I've ...
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