The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
IHow vain is Life! which rightly we compare To flying Posts, that haste away;To Plants, that fade with the declining ...
GovenorsAN ardent spirit dwells with Christian love,The eagle's vigour in the pitying dove;'Tis not enough that we with sorrow sigh,That ...
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
I There is a man of fifty-four years; He has dyspepsia, it appears; He chooses his food carefully, He pays ...
The sun's last light is in the sky,His last warm breath is on my brow, Dark shadows to the mountains ...
Take down your old gun, Uncle Sammy, All your pockets with cartridges cram; The war fogs that ...
CIIIParted again! Shall partings never cease? After the rapture of a few short days, Above whose brightest hour there glooms ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
That troubled land, torn and split knowing war, strife, too long Escape through there, to a land once of oppression, ...
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
ANCIEN REGIME I Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly, May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely, As ...
In every presence there is absence. When we're together, the spaces between Threaten to enclose our bodies And isolate our ...
'In our time the destiny of man prevents its meanings in political terms.' -- Thomas Mann. How can I, that ...
The distemper, folly, and madness of sin Sin, like a venomous disease, Infects our vital blood; The only balm is ...
Jim just loves to garden, yes he does. He likes nothing better than to put on his little overalls and ...
Jim just loves to garden, yes he does. He likes nothing better than to put on his little overalls and ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
If you fear losing somebody you love like rejection would be no surprise even if they never said it out ...
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