On the Ruins of a Country Inn (Philip Freneau Poem)
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie A temple once to Bacchus rose, Beneath whose roof, aspiring high, Full many a ...
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie A temple once to Bacchus rose, Beneath whose roof, aspiring high, Full many a ...
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honied blossoms blow, Unseen thy ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
Soothing his Passions with a warb'ling Sound, A Shepherd-Swain lay stretch'd upon the Ground; Whilst all were mov'd, who their ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
Spires of the fireweed on the fretted sky - Tints of magenta on tranquility, Do you feel nurture for the ...
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay And could ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- ...
I've known a Heaven, like a Tent -- To wrap its shining Yards -- Pluck up its stakes, and disappear ...
There were some worthy places where we could escape, avoid the heavy weight of living in a densely peopled space; ...
Words today are how'd you say, in sad retreat, or obsolete? They slide around conducting sound, deferent to moving ground ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
How ill doth he deserve a lover's name, Whose pale weak flame Cannot retain His heat, in spite of absence ...
Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd, These representatives of God, In color, way of life and evil, Should be ...
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
It's August and I have not Read a book in six months except something called The Retreat from Moscow by ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
To keep the lamp alive, With oil we fill the bowl; 'Tis water makes the willow thrive, And grace that ...
The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade: The winds play no ...
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
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