The Borough. Letter XVI: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Benlow (George Crabbe Poems)
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,A meteor shining in this sober place!Vast sums were paid, and many years were ...
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,A meteor shining in this sober place!Vast sums were paid, and many years were ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
I. O NATURE! thou whom I have thought to love, Seeing in thine the reflex of God's face, A loathed ...
I.I NEVER lay me down to sleep at night But in my heart I sing that little song: The angels ...
To Jesus our Saviour some parents presented Their children—what fears and what hopes they must feel!When this the disciples would ...
Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, ...
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; But the Sons of Martha favour their ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
All the dull hollow clamor has died and what was contained, removed, reproved adulation or sentiment, left with the pungent ...
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
Remember him, whom Passion's power Severely---deeply---vainly proved: Remember thou that dangerous hour, When neither fell, though both were loved. That ...
Sweet girl! though only once we met, That meeting I shall ne'er forget; And though we ne'er may meet again, ...
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
Good Father John O'Hart In penal days rode out To a Shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe ...
God's conduct of Israel, and the plagues of Egypt. Give thanks to God, invoke his name, And tell the world ...
The true God our refuge; or, Idolatry reproved. Not to ourselves, who are but dust, Not to ourselves is glory ...
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the ...
At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the ...
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