Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto I. (John Gay Poems)
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
Thou art my glory—Thou my song, whose throneIs built upon the highest heavens—and thenceRollest the spheres by Thine omnipotence—Thou art ...
"YE nations of Europe! arising to war, And scorning submission to tyranny's might Oh! follow the track of my bright ...
Oft have we parted Love! beforeWith prospects darkly shadow'd o'er,But never have we sunder'd yet,With such wild hopelessness as now,Since ...
IN midst of sorrows, doubts, and fears,Of lamentations, sighs, and tears,When no bright beam of hope appears, Dear Lord, "Remember ...
CLOSE in the hedge a Violet bloom'd Upon its native stem,Deck'd with a dewy drop more bright Than ...
I pity the slave mother, careworn and weary,Who sighs as she presses her babe to her breast;I lament her sad ...
Gentle pilgrim, tell me whyDost thou fold thine arms and sigh,And wistful cast thine eyes around?-Whither, pilgrim, art thou bound?"The ...
I. "Another day, Ah! me, a day "Of dreary Sorrow is begun! "And still I loath the temper'd ray, "And ...
Close on the margin of a brawling brook That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot; O'ershadow'd by broad ...
Oh! weep for the hour, When to Eveleen's bower, The Lord of the Valley with false vows came; The moon ...
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