Charles The Fifth’s Clocks (John Quincy Adams Poems)
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
What various temples, since old Time began,Have on this little globe been rear'd bv man !What different kinds of gods ...
And so another week has gone, And I once more am left alone Within my silent room; My mind is worn by fervent ...
BEFORE thou dost attempt to pray,Of all thy vices past repent,And wash the hateful filth away,That God may to thy ...
In many English churches before the Reformation there was kept a little lamp continually burning, called the Lamp of Poor ...
By the dry road the fathers cough and spit,This is their room. They are the ones who hungThat bloody sun ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
ADVICE; OR THE 'SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST.A wealthy Lord of far-extended landHad all that pleased him placed at his command;Widow'd ...
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
Read ye here the song as sung By a chief named, briefly, Ung.In the days when arguments were manly ...
Rebellion hath broken up house,And hath left me old lumber to sell;Come hither and take your choice,I'll promise to use ...
Napoleon made his Marshals out of mud,And Cromwell's Ironsides were mostly tanner,But nowadays our officers have blood,And lots of cash, ...
How many have you broken up till now?I know that yesterday you made a vow, And most solemnly 'twas spoken; ...
O—-d! afflicted with the Stone, repents,And shews, they say, great Signs of Penitence:Who in the least can doubt his Reformation;See! ...
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
A merry burgomaster In a burgh upon the Rhine Said, "Our burghers all are Far too fond of drinking wine." ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
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