The Conference (Charles Churchill Poems)
Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree,When they are told that grace was said by me;The servants gone to ...
Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree,When they are told that grace was said by me;The servants gone to ...
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS.Ye idler things, ...
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
BIRTH OF THE HARP.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Onward steered his goodly vessel,From the isle of Lemminkainen,From the borders of the village;Steered his ...
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
THE MOTHER'S COUNSEL.Ahti, hero of the Islands,Wild magician, Lemminkainen,Also known as Kaukomieli,Hastened from the great carousal,From the banquet-halls of Louhi,From ...
August 13: 1704 Oft hast thou acted thy part, My country, worthily thee! Lifted ...
Who flees the regions of the lower mind,Where these distempers breathe on every wind:Infectious dogmatisms, noxious hate,Old snarly spleen, and ...
O POWER Supreme! whose awful wordAgain commands th' avenging swordO'er guilty man to glare;Lord! while thy judgments yet impend,Before thy ...
OH Mother Linden, hold me fast,I tremble in the vernal blast,Lest, with its ice-drops cold and keen,It rend my new-made ...
Our hearts are like two night-bound, shipwrecked barks, Lashed fast, through terror of the raging sea, That, though they gride ...
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods ...
Were I - who to my cost already am One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man - A spirit free ...
The blessings of the liberal man. That man is blest who stands in awe Of God, and loves his sacred ...
Repentance and free pardon. Blest is the man, for ever blest, Whose guilt is pardoned by his God; Whose sins ...
Is the spider a monster in miniature? His web is a cruel stair, to be sure, Designed artfully, cunningly placed, ...
You ask me what I call Success - It is, I wonder, Happiness? It is not wealth, it is not ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by, Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve, Some froward, some ...
When life's largest pressures leave you struck dumb, Just search for an answer; the solution will come. When a tragedy ...
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