Ode to Winter (Thomas Campbell Poem)
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
(Phillipians, iv.11) Fierce passions discompose the mind, As tempests vex the sea, But calm, content and peace we find, When, ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
There is a child I used to know who sat, perhaps, at this same desk where you sit now, and ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
With one consuming roar along the shingle The long wave claws and rakes the pebbles down To where its backwash ...
I am standing under the mistletoe, And I smile, but no answering smile replies For her haughty glance bids me ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now, When Reason, with a scornful brow, Is mocking at my overthrow! Oh, thy ...
O, thy bright eyes must answer now, When Reason, with a scornful brow, Is mocking at my overthrow! O, thy ...
Peoples of the world, together Join to serve the common cause! So it feeds us all for ever See to ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giralda in a land no crueller, and over the walls to domes & ...
SOFTLY as brown-eyed Angels rove I will return to thy alcove, And glide upon the night to thee, Treading the ...
I. Of the million or two, more or less, I rule and possess, One man, for some cause undefined, Was ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
O God, where does this tend-these struggling aims? What would I have? What is this 'sleep', which seems To bound ...
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