Roberval (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
A LEGEND OF OLD FRANCE.Never did rosy morning Sweep o'er the skirts of night,Calm nature's face adorning, With more intense delight;Never did ...
A LEGEND OF OLD FRANCE.Never did rosy morning Sweep o'er the skirts of night,Calm nature's face adorning, With more intense delight;Never did ...
Once Satan and a monk went on a "drunk,"And Satan struck a bargain with the monk,Whereby the Devil's crew was ...
I. Against.Think not thou that fields and flowers,Copses and Arcadian bowers, Grow the crop of Peace :—In this model life of ...
Ho! workers of the old time styledThe Gentle Craft of Leather!Young brothers of the ancient guild,Stand forth once more together!Call ...
Clap your Hands, ye People allIn Cummingston who dwell;Macdebit's dead, whose holy TricksWill sink his Soul to &wblank;:No more will ...
In Robert Bruce's Days,The Flemings wore the Bays.Their Courage it surpassed monny:For they the Dagger drew,And serv'd their King ay ...
My gods, you say, are idols dumb,Which men ...
Ye minist'ring spirits of grace, That wait on the good and the true,To comfort, support, and solace— Earth fails us—we call upon ...
Hands off! thou tithe-fat plunderer! playNo trick of priestcraft here!Back, puny lordling! darest thou layA hand on Elliott's bier?Alive, your ...
Christian England! where so longFreedom's trumpet, clear and strong,Still has stirr'd the patriot song— Down with foreign priestcraft!England! Truth's own island-nest,Pure ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
There was once a Simple People - (you, of course, will understandThis is just a little fable of a non-existent ...
Now that the gods are dead-where shall we find us a god?Myths of the Greek Olympus have sunk in the ...
HOW wild is the struggle, how deep is the anguish That preys on my bosom, by fancy refin'd;I feel ...
EXCERPT] ... O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor ...
THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
When SUPERSTITION rul'd the land And Priestcraft shackled Reason, At GODSTOW dwelt a goodly band, Grey monks they were, and ...
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