Ode (John Dryden Poem)
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The land was broken in despair, The princes quarrelled in the dark, When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air ...
The mysteries remain, I keep the same cycle of seed-time and of sun and rain; Demeter in the grass, I ...
The Well upon the Brook Were foolish to depend -- Let Brooks -- renew of Brooks -- But Wells -- ...
Could Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done -- Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none -- Balked ...
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes -- I wonder if It weighs like Mine -- Or ...
We reflect this day on the essence of intimacy, from its origins in the spring-tide of youth to an afterward ...
On your birthday, today, there is time to reflect On the essence of our intimacy, From a beginning in the ...
We knew their names or thought we did, we knew their faces from an album of places we'd played in ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Jesus! where'er Thy people meet, There they behold Thy mercy seat; Where'er they seek Thee, Thou art found, And every ...
(Isaiah, lvii.15) The Lord will happiness divine On contrite hearts bestow; Then tell me, gracious God, is mine A contrite ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
The Saviour hides His face; My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love. The favor'd ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
(An Oath wrtitten during the Dawn Meditation) Aiwaz! Confirm my troth with thee ! my will inspire With secret sperm ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
(An Oath wrtitten during the Dawn Meditation) Aiwaz! Confirm my troth with thee ! my will inspire With secret sperm ...
Of late, in one of those most weary hours, When life seems emptied of all genial powers, A dready ...
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
COME then, as ever, like the wind at morning! Joyous, O Youth, in the aged world renew Freshness to feel ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
The roses of Love glad the garden of life, Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew, Till Time crops the ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
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