The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Ver. 1. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,Sole Monarch of the universal ...
While to our Queen each duteous Bard conveysThe faithful Tribute of exalted Praise;While Genius, Learning, all their Force combine,To make ...
A PHILOSOPHIC maid, with tranquil mind,Life's gayer scenes and youth's fond hopes resign'd,Left Piercefield's lov'd retreats, from childhood dear,And came ...
OH, sweet Humanity! if e'erThe tide of pity in this breastShould be calcin'd by grief and care,Or stagnate--from my being ...
THAT sun which rose o'er Judah's land,On this auspicious day,Shall shine for ages yet to come,With never-setting ray.The Sun of ...
The Inammoration.ARGUMENT. O, DEUS, aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne! Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui! Languet ut ...
BRISTOL, thine heart hath throbb'd to glory.-Slaves,E'en Christian slaves, have shook their chains, and gaz'dWith wonder and amazement on thee. ...
HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,By storms unruffled and unstain'd by tears:Wing'd by new joys may each white ...
My Son! attend th'Instructions that I give,And let them ever in thy Memory live;So shall thy Life with Length of ...
How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring (Worthy thy Fame) a grateful Offering? I, who by Toils of Sickness, ...
THOU, by whose gen'rous mien, whose open brow,Thy unsubdued majestic heart we know;Whose god-like port proclaims thy race divine,Whose smiles ...
UPON THE MARKS OF ROYAL BOUNTY WHICH SHERECEIVED AT A VERY ADVANCED AGE, AFTERTHE DEATH OF HER FRIEND THE DUCHESS ...
Strophe I.Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought;Groves, where immortal Sages taught;Where heav'nly visions of Plato fir'd,And Epicurus lay inspir'd!In ...
THOU, whose mild radiance all adore,O let not human-kind deploreThe loss of thy propitious smile:Why, Goddess, in such wild affright,Wilt ...
Those Ladies, Sir, we Virtuosa's call, But Copies are to this Original; Whose charming Empire of her Grace does Sense ...
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
Flesh and spirit. Rom. 8:1 What vain desires and passions vain Attend this mortal clay! Oft have they pierced my ...
O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than ...
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