Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. (William Cowper Poems)
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
King of deserts reigns the lion; will he through his realm go riding, Down to the lagoon he paces, in the ...
FAR away from the hill side, the lake, and the hamlet,The rock, and the brook, and yon meadow so gay;From ...
Hands off! thou tithe-fat plunderer! playNo trick of priestcraft here!Back, puny lordling! darest thou layA hand on Elliott's bier?Alive, your ...
For virtue, freedom, human rights, to fall,Beseems the brave: it is a Saviour's death.Of heroes only the most pure of ...
"SAY, have you found the heart I lostAs you and I, last night,The fragrant, new-mown meadow crossed,Beneath the sweet starlight?""I ...
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
On what sweet shore the blue AEgean laves, Where loveliness is wedded to decay, -- Beauty to desolation, -- 'mid ...
A sound of woe in Salem! — mournful criesRose from her dwellings — youthful cheeks were pale,Tears flowing fast from ...
AH! river named of France, let reason judge, My silver-mounted implement to thee,If I am greatly blameable to grudge, Seized, ...
Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear Reclothed in fresh and verdant diaper; Thaw'd are the snows; and ...
Let others speak of her shame, I speak of my own. O Germany, pale mother! How soiled you are As ...
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
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