A Letter Sent To Mrs. Barber (Mary Barber Poems)
Thou glorious Ruler of the beauteous Day!Have sev'nteen Years so swiftly roll'd away?Hast thou so oft the heav'nly Circle run,When ...
Thou glorious Ruler of the beauteous Day!Have sev'nteen Years so swiftly roll'd away?Hast thou so oft the heav'nly Circle run,When ...
Author of health, who all the plants that growHast form'd! who hast the tyrant Death subdu'd!Thy blessing on this medicine ...
Ye heedless Fair, who pass the live--long Day,In Dress and Scandal, Gallantry and Play;Who thro' new Scenes of Pleasure hourly ...
Is't long of thy short memorie, that thouyeeld'st not due thanks, where thou the same do'st owe?Alas, good man; why ...
What is that tear—that sorrowless tear— That rests on the infant's cheek awhile,'Till the fond parent coming near Soon chases away the ...
YE angels, and ye human sons of care!Ye heav'ns and earth, and all that in them are,Praise ye the Lord ...
ENCLOS'D within a spot of earth,A form superior lies,Endow'd with talents great and rare,Humane, sincere, and wise!Oh, Pemberton! thy matchless ...
YE Muses, pour the pitying tearFor Pollio snatch'd away;O! had he liv'd another year!—'He had not died to-day'.O! were he ...
Fill for me a brimming bowlAnd in it let me drown my soul:But put therein some drug, designedTo Banish Women ...
IN HOLY-ROOD CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON. When Pomp, when Wealth, when Greatness sink to dust, Though Vanity adorn the splendid bust, Sincerer drops of tributary ...
LIKE Daniel, when among the lions cast,Like Jonah, in the whale imprison'd fast,I lifted to the Lord my voice on ...
PreludesI The Lover He meets, by heavenly chance express, ...
NOW seated secure round this bright cheery fire,A ditty from me why so earnest require?A tale full of horrors, you ...
Hail Mystick Art! which Men, like Angels, taught,To speak to Eyes, and paint unbody'd Thought!Though Deaf, and Dumb; blest Skill, ...
Fill for me a brimming bowl And in it let me drown my soul: But put therein some drug, designed ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night: When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side ...
Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar, And felt'st the horrors of the wat'ry war, To me unknown, yet ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red ...
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud, Adonis' trampling courser doth ...
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