Ode To Content (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
DAUGHTER of Innocence! descend,Thou stranger to repining Care;Whose breast no furious passions rend,Let human hearts thy influence share:Why wilt thou ...
DAUGHTER of Innocence! descend,Thou stranger to repining Care;Whose breast no furious passions rend,Let human hearts thy influence share:Why wilt thou ...
My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare, In whom honour and worth are glorified, Fountain of all things wise, ...
FRIENDSHIP's the greater bliss we mortals share,It heightens pleasure, softens ev'ry care;Expands the heart, each thought severe disarms,And in the ...
The balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to this speaking quietude That wraps this moveless ...
Know ye the land where the leaf of the myrtleIs bestow'd on good livers in eating sublime?Where the rage for ...
HER even lines her steady temper show;Neat as her dress, and polish'd as her brow;Strong as her judgment, easy as ...
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
All that I do Is in review To his enamored mind I know his eye Where e'er I ply Is ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
YE sons of old Killie, assembled by Willie, To follow the noble vocation; Your thrifty old mother has scarce such ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
From ten thousand valleys the trees touch heaven; On a thousand peaks cuckoos are calling; And, after a night of ...
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth, To mingle with his stars; and every muse, Astonish'd into silence, ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the ...
Inside Ayers Rock is lit with paired fluorescent lights on steel pillars supporting the ceiling of haze-blue marquee cloth high ...
In Rotterdam I'm going to speak about the state of poetry on a panel with a Pole and a Turk. ...
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