Funerall Elegy 3. (Ralph Knevet Poems)
When Hils, and Valleys, wrap't in sheets of snow, Did pennance for their summer luxury, And Winter old unto the world did ...
When Hils, and Valleys, wrap't in sheets of snow, Did pennance for their summer luxury, And Winter old unto the world did ...
IHAIL sun-beams in the east are spread ;Leave, leave, fair bride, your solitary bed ; No more shall you return to ...
If proud Pygmalion quit his cumbrous frame,Funereal pomp the scanty tear supplies;Whilst heralds loud, with venal voice, proclaim,Lo! here the ...
NEVER nobler was the Senate,Never grander the debate:Rome's old gods are on their trialBy the judges of the state!Torn by ...
Not from Paestum come my roses; Patrons, seeMy flowers are Roman-blown; their nectariesDrop honey amber, and their petals throwRich crimsons ...
My trade was old when the world was new, Ere the pyramids rose by the NileMen quitted their wives, and gave ...
Rise from the dells where ye first were born,From the tangled beds of the weed and thorn,Rise! for the dews ...
Last Wen'sday, when Jupiter rose to survey The annual return and procession of May, Concluding, the lady with Venus and ...
Oh! bright are the names of the chieftains and sages,That shine like the stars through the darkness of ages,Whose deeds ...
The night goes away, another night, and the wingof an immense airplance has placed itselfbetween the wide blue and the ...
I honour all trees well; but, best of all,I love those scarred old veterans, proud and tall, Gazing ...
How can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of realm about cheapening their corn, When you ...
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