Johannes Ewald’s Last Poetic Sentiments Some Hours Prior To His Death (Johannes Ewald Poems)
To arms, hero of Calvary!Lift high your bright-red shield;For sin and dread - as you can see -By force would ...
To arms, hero of Calvary!Lift high your bright-red shield;For sin and dread - as you can see -By force would ...
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
'Twas on the morning of that fateful day When Cyrus met on Thymbra's spacious plain The mighty host by wealthy ...
1 England, fair England! Empress isle of isles! --Round whom the loving-envious ocean plays, Girdling thy feet with silver and ...
FROM St. Peter's tower the bell had toll'd,For the Carmelite Monks to pray,And the holy priest by the altar kneel'dOn ...
1553-4 Two ships upon the steel-blue Arctic seas When day was long and night itself was day, Forged heavily before ...
"Silent he stalk'd, and ever and anon He shudder'd, and turn'd back, saying, ""Who follows?"" Horror had blanch'd his check; ...
I STOOD within the grave's o'ershadowing vault; Gloomy and damp it stretch'd its vast domain; Shades were its boundary; for ...
The sun has set; grey shadows darken slowly The rose-red cloud-hills that were bathed in light O Lord, to ...
OF those who minister to sons of earth,Three Angels were assigned me at my birth:The first was Life, strong, earnest, ...
But Ethiopia hath stretch'd out Her hands to God on high;And midst her many fears and doubts Her voice hath ...
FLOWERS for thy grave! and first I bear The one whose name beseems the spot; For me it breathes to ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
STRAIT is the spot and green the sod From whence my sorrows flow; And soundly sleeps the ever dear Inhabitant ...
She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she calls ...
Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell; Whose practise shew'd goodness was possible, Who reach'd the full outstretch'd perfection Of Man, of ...
WHERE on the bosom of the foamy RHINE, In curling waves the rapid waters shine; Where tow'ring cliffs in awful ...
'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western Main An ALIEN dwelt. A solitary Hut Built on a jutting crag, o'erhung ...
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