The Minstrel ; Or, The Progress Of Genius – Book II. (James Beattie Poems)
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
SCEN. 1.Clematis Solo Well, if I were but once rid of her service, If I ever serv'd love-sicke mistris againe, I would feed all ...
Now, round the yielding canopy of shade,Again the Guide his heavenly power display'd.Sudden, the stars their trembling fires withdrew,Returning splendors ...
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
I.Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle ...
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
On Exodus iii. 14. "I am that I am."Man! foolish man!Scarce know'st thou how thyself began,Scarce hadst thou thought enough ...
O God of mercy, soft-ey'd Pity's Sire!For Jesus sake, my num'rous faults pass o'er,Which more Arithmetic, I own, requireTo count, ...
The title page will show, if there thou look,Who are the proper subjects of this book.They're boys and girls of ...
In the old days (a custom laid asideWith breeches and cocked hats) the people sentTheir wisest men to make the ...
It always has been a thought discreetTo know the company you meet;And sure there may be secret dangerIn talking much ...
Can America be reckoned as the country of the free?In the light of recent actions 'tis a truth that's hard ...
True laureate of the Anglo-Saxon race, Whose words have won the hearts of young and old;So free from cant, and yet ...
I am so sick I'd like to beA clock, to have them open meAnd regulate the jerks,When on the pendulum ...
You may tinker with the tariff and make some simple gains, You may put on tolls or take 'em off, ...
Maybe this information her diagnosis easier our lives maybe careful, not carefree totally She will count the numbers regulate so ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying -- this to Us Made Nature ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
I never kill a fly because I think that what we have of laws To regulate and civilize Our daily ...
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