The Borough. Letter II: The Church (George Crabbe Poems)
WHAT is a Church?--Let Truth and Reason speak,They would reply, "The faithful, pure, and meek;From Christian folds, the one selected ...
WHAT is a Church?--Let Truth and Reason speak,They would reply, "The faithful, pure, and meek;From Christian folds, the one selected ...
I The ragged pilgrim, on the road to nowhere, Waits at the granite milestone. It grows dark. Willows lean by ...
Alone. For Jack has gone away, To hide his head in proofs and letters;And left me here to spend the ...
Three young girls in friendship met;Mary, Martha, Margaret.Margaret was tall and fair,Martha shorter by a hair;If the first excelled in ...
Long, long ago, ere yet our race began,When earth was empty, waiting still for man,Before the breath of life to ...
Having consider'd thus what's to be done,The hazards, hardships, and the risque you run,Consider with what strength you are endow'd,What ...
We often hear men boast about the land which gave them birth,And each one thinks his native land the fairest ...
URANIA, whom the Town admires, Whose Wit and Beauty share our Praise; This fair URANIA who inspires A ...
Once upon a time, in days remote,A politician bought a vote. The price he paid is not quite clear, But ...
WRITTEN ON THE FIRST LEAF OF A LADY'S ALBUM.Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing,First leaf of spring!At every lightest breath that ...
Behold my treasures, darling, they are less than a Biblical farthing, behold the fate of a true and faithful life, ...
(To --)HAD you lived when a tyrant KingStrove to make all the slaves of one,With Nobles and with Churchmen youHad ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a lover Dwelling in the neighb'ring town; Both racked their brains to discover How they best ...
URANIA, whom the Town admires, Whose Wit and Beauty share our Praise; This fair URANIA who inspires A thousand Joys ...
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed, And mounting steed, ...
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
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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