Vision Of Columbus – Book 1 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Long had the Sage, the first who dared to braveThe unknown dangers of the western wave,Who taught mankind where future ...
Long had the Sage, the first who dared to braveThe unknown dangers of the western wave,Who taught mankind where future ...
Call the strange spirit that abides unseenIn wilds, and wastes, and shaggy solitudes,And bid his dim hand lead thee through ...
Sacred, O Glotta! be the following strains;Thy flow'ry borders, and thy pleasing plains,Inspire the Muse. Carnarvon, present be,I sing of ...
Little Ella, fairest, dearest Unto me and unto mine,Earthly cherub, coming nearest Unto me and unto mine!Her brief absence frets and pains ...
The morning mist is cleared away, Yet still the face of Heaven is grey,Nor yet this autumnal breeze has stirred the ...
Aunt Nancy's one o' t' savin' sort, At niver lets t' chonce pass;Yet wouldn't do owt mean or low For t' sake ...
When presses hard my load of care, And other friends from me depart,I want a friend my grief to share, With faithful ...
While Strephon's Verse, with honest Rage reprovesFat Caelia's Pride, and Tyrrel's guilty Loves:Caelia confronted, haughty Airs forgets,And loaded with her ...
LET dew the flowers fill;No need of fell despair,Though to the grave you bearOne still of soul-but now too still,One ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
In the furnace the dry branches crackle, the crucible shines as withgold,As they carry the hot flaming metal in haste ...
Semichorus.Oh Tyrant Love! hast thou possestThe prudent, learn'd, and virtuous breast?Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim,And Arts but soften us ...
Love sleeps! O do not strive to break His slumbers, he too soon will wake. But now all tranquilly he ...
I The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours ...
He. Dear, I must be gone While night Shuts the eyes Of the household spies; That song announces dawn. She. ...
The punishment of luxury and intemperance. When Isr'el sins, the Lord reproves And fills their hearts with dread; Yet he ...
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
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