The Brus Book IV (John Barbour Poems)
In Rawchryne leve we now the kingIn rest foroutyn barganyng,And off his fayis a quhile speke weThat ...
In Rawchryne leve we now the kingIn rest foroutyn barganyng,And off his fayis a quhile speke weThat ...
The manner of a Sinner's divorce from the Law in a work of Humiliation, and his Marriage to the Lord ...
The Argument.The warlick Douglase on his iournay goasWheir his most loued Lord did him commandHe finds a deing knight that ...
Preface.Hark, dying mortal, if the Sonnet proveA song of living and immortal love,'Tis then thy grand concern the theme to ...
The Believer's Principles, ConcerningI. Creation and Redemption.II. Law and Gospel.III. Justification and Sanctification.IV. Faith and Sense.V. Heaven and Earth.Chap. I.The Believer's ...
Sir Ralph, a simple, rural Knight,Could just distinguish Wrong from Right;When he receiv'd a Quarter's Rent,And almost half in Taxes ...
NO more let Europe's offspring boastSuperior sense and worth;Or fancy virtue is attach'dTo any spot of earth;Nor e'er suppose that ...
Of Dames who in strict Virtue glory,In antient or in modern Story;The fam'd Lucretia bears the Bell,An arrant Prude, as ...
O moving sight! it wakes the tragic muse;To scenes like this my heart is never cold:Alas! poor plant, why stand'st ...
Neere to the place where Nilus channels runne, There stood a town by loue long since vndone For ...
MISFORTUNE'S stings transfix the purest heart,And souls, unknown to guilt, with anguish smart.Not virtue can secure the good man's state,Nor ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
In good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant; A furious High-Church man ...
Never a greater foe did Love disdaine, Or trode on grasse so gay,Nor Nimph ...
WHAT are the choicest blessings heav'n bestows?Or mortal man through life's short journey knows?Sure Health and Liberty combin'd may formThat ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Since so ye please to hear me plain, And that ye do rejoice my smart, Me list no lenger to ...
By that he ended had his ghostly sermon, The fox was well induc'd to be a parson, And of the ...
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