Puritans – (from Hudibras) (Samuel Butler Poems)
Our brethren of New England useChoice malefactors to excuse,And hang the guiltless in their stead,Of whom the churches have less ...
Our brethren of New England useChoice malefactors to excuse,And hang the guiltless in their stead,Of whom the churches have less ...
Thy faithfulness, Lord, Each moment we find,So true to thy word, So loving and kind!Thy mercy so tender To all ...
RESENTMENT.Females there are of unsuspicious mind,Easy and soft and credulous and kind;Who, when offended for the twentieth time,Will hear the ...
Gilgamesh spoke to Utanapishtim, the Faraway: "I have been looking at you, but your appearance is not strange—you ...
LEAVE now our streets, and in yon plain beholdThose pleasant Seats for the reduced and old;A merchant's gift, whose wife ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
In this the main Point of Religion lies,To have right Notions of the Deities;As that such Beings really are, that ...
OH , woman! what hast thou done, presumptuous Eve!Stretch'd forth thy daring hand against command,Command of Him, whose high creative ...
When Science, trembling in the lengthened shadeOf monster superstitions, and menacedBy raving Bigotry, a dream embracedOf prosperous worlds by mortal ...
Darkness succeeds to twilight: Through lattice and through skylightThe stars no doubt, if one looked out, Might be ...
Oh, this is my departing night,Fareweel, fareweel, to ane an' a',Alas! before the mornin's light,Far maun I be frae ye ...
Thy faithfulness, Lord, Each moment we find,So true to thy word, So loving and kind!Thy mercy so tender To all ...
Ah, dear, we part for ever, You with a longing sigh,I with a heart that never Can thrill with beauty ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
The magistrate's Psalm. Mercy and judgment are my song; And since they both to thee belong, My gracious God, my ...
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds ...
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
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