The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
.Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
All the comforts of life in a Tavern are known,'Tis his home who possesses not one of his own;And to ...
1382It is a dream, I know:--Yet on the pastOf this dear England if in thought we gaze,About her seems a ...
With nice observance of the rulesAnd precepts of the pastoral schools,A shepherdess, as fair as pure, ,Beneath a hedgerow sat ...
COME Contemplation, in whose mienAwful Wisdom sits serene,Pleas'd shall the eye thy form survey;No gaudy plumage decks thy brow,Nor dazzling ...
Here I make oath--Although the heart that knows its bitternessHear loath,And credit less--That he who kens to meet Pain's kisses ...
Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches Life is gay and pleasure ladenAll in vain the law beseeches ...
"MY heart is high above, my body is full of bliss, For I am set in luve as well as ...
Sir, -- I try to do my duty as a patriotic man With sane views about the science of gastronomy;And ...
MEAGRE observance that we make, and lame, With tasks inverted, of Jehovah's day!We at whose hands our fellow-men should claim ...
My lady's birthday rises golden fair, And I arise to see the lord of light Beaconing the land from every ...
CCXII cannot liken thee to any flower, As they of old, the master poets, chose From fancy's bed, to meetly ...
If any God should say, "I will restore The world her yesterday Whole as before My Judgment blasted it"--who would ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
RORATE coeli desuper! Hevins, distil your balmy schouris! For now is risen the bricht day-ster, Fro the rose Mary, flour ...
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
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