Elijah’s Mantle (George Canning Poems)
A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITT.When, by th' Almighty's dread commandElijah, call'd from Israel's land, ...
A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITT.When, by th' Almighty's dread commandElijah, call'd from Israel's land, ...
By permission of the great Esquire Hall Being assembled here this day Unanimously bleating all For Him that's far away. ...
No doubt the saying's all abroad, And rattling through the land.We hear it at the mangle, too, ...
I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate,Of the days of that old gentleman who had that ...
Slumbering I lay in melancholy bed, Before the dawning of the sanguin light: When Eccho Shrill, or some Familiar Spright ...
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky, if no longer dark tempests deform;When our perils are ...
When the broad-bottom'd Junto, with reason at strife,Resign'd, with a sigh, its political life;When converted to Rome, and of honesty ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
THOU, Liberty, thou art my theme; Not such as idle poets dream, Who trick thee up a heathen goddess That ...
FOR lords or kings I dinna mourn, E'en let them die-for that they're born: But oh! prodigious to reflec'! A ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
FINTRY, my stay in wordly strife, Friend o' my muse, friend o' my life, Are ye as idle's I am? ...
GUID-MORNIN' to our Majesty! May Heaven augment your blisses On ev'ry new birth-day ye see, A humble poet wishes. My ...
One pitt containes him now that could not dye Before a thousand pitts in him did lye; Soe many spotts ...
TO mute and to material things New life revolving summer brings; The genial call dead Nature hears, And in her ...
An Englishman was Thomas Paine Who bled for liberty; But while his fight was far from vain He died in ...
The word goes round Repins, the murmur goes round Lorenzinis, at Tattersalls, men look up from sheets of numbers, the ...
My banks are all furnished with rags, So thick, even Freddy can't thin 'em; I've torn up my old money-bags, ...
["Now what, we ask, is become of this Sinking Fund - these eight millions of surplus above expenditure, which were ...
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