The Invitation to Selborne (Gilbert White Poems)
See Selborne spreads her boldest beauties roundThe varied valley, and the mountain ground,Wildly majestic! what is all the prideOf flats, ...
See Selborne spreads her boldest beauties roundThe varied valley, and the mountain ground,Wildly majestic! what is all the prideOf flats, ...
If proud Pygmalion quit his cumbrous frame,Funereal pomp the scanty tear supplies;Whilst heralds loud, with venal voice, proclaim,Lo! here the ...
Uncomprising year-I see no meaning to life.Though this abled self is here nonetheless,either in trade gold or grammaticness,I drop the ...
Every sick person that is impatient with his physician,Bringeth, if thou but consider, affliction upon himself.The fish existeth in the ...
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
Beeing thy servant Cynthia, 'tis my duty To make thy name as glorious ...
Let not these thoughts torment you: I alas!In low ignoble poverty shall passMy wretched days, and unregarded lieBuried alive, in ...
To the Superior World to Solemn PeaceTo Regions where Delights shall never ceaseTo Living Springs and to Celestial shadeFor change ...
Milton, thou shouldest be living at this hour,England hath need of thee. She is a denOf sugar cards and meatless ...
88As by the dead we love to sit,Become so wondrous dear -As for the lost we grappleTho' all the rest ...
868They ask but our Delight-The Darlings of the SoilAnd grant us all their CountenanceFor a penurious smile.(Emily Dickinson)
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let ...
They ask but our Delight -- The Darlings of the Soil And grant us all their Countenance For a penurious ...
I should have been too glad, I see -- Too lifted -- for the scant degree Of Life's penurious Round ...
As by the dead we love to sit, Become so wondrous dear -- As for the lost we grapple Tho' ...
Did life's penurious length Italicize its sweetness, The men that daily live Would stand so deep in joy That it ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
Once upon a time there was an Italian, And some people thought he was a rapscallion, But he wasn't offended, ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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