M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule,First put the British troops to school;Instructed them in warlike trade,And new manoeuvres of parade,The ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule,First put the British troops to school;Instructed them in warlike trade,And new manoeuvres of parade,The ...
The days how few, how short the yearsOf man's too rapid race!Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,A shorter in its ...
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
Deep St. Mary's bell had sounded, And the twelve notes gently rounded Endless chimneys that surrounded My abode in Trinity. (Letter G, Old Court, ...
What can I say? What Arguments can proveMy Truth? What Colors can describe my Love?If it's Excess and Fury be ...
THE EYE. Some eyes are trained to scan large field Till instantaneous glance may yield A knowledge full and plenty; While others keep a ...
Of deep research and cogitation,Of many a head and many a nation,While all in vainHave tried their wits to answer ...
Mark ye well the blood--red Rose,Matin hour, her hood unclose,Ye shall in her blushing faceThe weeping dews of midnight trace.Such ...
The western sun withdrawn the shorten'd day,And humid evening, gliding o'er the skyIn her chill progress, to the ground condensedThe ...
Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain,Are they who point our pathway and sustain.They rarely meet; one soars, one ...
That's him!! The authentic, identical beast! The Unionist tiger, full brother to "Sosh"!I know by the prowl of him.Hark to ...
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
We so often forget where we have been So easily see that speck, so blind to the log, to plank ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
We loved our nightjar, but she would not stay with us. We had found her lying as dead, but soft ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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