An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford to hasten Him into the Country (Thomas Randolph Poems)
COME, spur away, I have no patience for a longer stay, But must go down And leave the chargeable noise of this great ...
COME, spur away, I have no patience for a longer stay, But must go down And leave the chargeable noise of this great ...
I will not build on yonder mount;And, should you call me to account,Consulting with myself, I findIt was no levity ...
FROM the soft shades, and from the balmy sweetsOf Medford's flowery vales, and green retreats,Your absent Delia to her father ...
Of all the lovely blossoms That decorate the trees, And shower down their petals With every breath of breeze, There is nothing so sweet ...
Matron fair, ripe, rich and glowing,Full thy stores, thy vintage flowing;Golden sunflowers, dahlias blowing, Deck thy festal board.With ruddy fruit the ...
There is wild water from the north;The headlands darken in their foamAs with a threat of challenge stubborn earthBooms at ...
What is the task that to the muse belongs?What but to deck in her harmonious songsThe beauteous works of nature ...
Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids!Unlock ...
Or,A Review of my Scholastic Days"O, Festus Dies Hominis!"-O, the Joyful Day of Man!Why, (when the hours of school-day bliss ...
The fair Pomona flourish'd in his reign;Of all the Virgins of the sylvan train,None taught the trees a nobler race ...
First see those ample melons-brindled o'erWith mingled green and brown is all the rind;For they are ripe, and mealy at ...
January.Lo, my fair! the morning lazyPeeps abroad from yonder hill; Phoebus rises, red and hazy;Frost has stopp'd the village mill.February.All ...
"LOVELY nymph! with eye serene, Dimpled smile and frolic mien; Come, with airy step advancing, Come, with blooming Hebe dancing; ...
As Venus sat mop'd, no Mars to divert her,Her good Man asleep, whom she wished alerter;"I'll e'en take a Ride, ...
'TIS said that the gods on Olympus of old (And who the bright legend profanes with a doubt?) One ...
HAIL! temp'rate Autumn, Nymph sedate,With russet clad in simple state,Thou claim'st the votive lay;Thy dew the thirsty earth revives,Each drooping ...
At noon of night the goddess, silver-stoled, Came with light foot across the moonlit land, And breezes soft as blow ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Fair Child of Sun and Summer! we behold With eager eyes thy wings bedropp'd with gold; The purple spots that ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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