To Benjamin Franklin, Occasioned by Hearing Him Play on the Harmonica (Nathaniel Evans Poems)
IN grateful wonder lost, long had we viewedEach generous act thy patriot-soul pursued;Our Little State resounds thy just applause,And, pleased, ...
IN grateful wonder lost, long had we viewedEach generous act thy patriot-soul pursued;Our Little State resounds thy just applause,And, pleased, ...
AN idle poet, dreaming in the sun,One given to much unhallowed vagrancyOf thought and step; who, when he comes to ...
'Tis not for Muse like mine, in rude essay,To paint the beauties of thy Classic Page;Which ay deserve far other ...
What, have I waked again? I never thoughtTo see the rosy dawn, or ev'n this grey, Dull, solemn stillness, ere ...
I sat apart upon a hill, And piped and piped ...
COME , then, explore with me each winding glen,Far from the noisy haunts of busy men;Let us with stedfast eye ...
Now lithe and listen, gentles all, Now lithe ye all and harkUnto a ballad I shall sing About Buena Park.Of ...
A fable told by La Fontaine, Two centuries or more ago, Describes some rats who would arraign A cat, their ...
COME out, said Leonard, bursting through my door, His black curls tangled like a fretting sea,-- "Come out, nor waste ...
In an ocean, 'way out yonder, (As all sapient people know) Is the land of Wonder-Wander, Whither children ...
I knew his face the moment that he passed Triumphant in the thoughtless, cruel throng,-- Triumphant, though the quiet, ...
World war had come - and gone. It seemed the end. Spent, broken, by the last despair oppressed,Unfitted to ...
Dear Miller: You and I despise The cad who gathers books to sell 'em, Be they but sixteen-mos in ...
To brush the cheeks of Ladies fair, With genuine charms o'erspread, Their sapient beards with mickle care Our wise forefathers ...
In an ocean, 'way out yonder, (As all sapient people know) Is the land of Wonder-Wander, Whither children love to ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. The Jew of Malta. POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift ...
I ask not that my bed of death From bands of greedy heirs be free; For these besiege the latest ...
In elder days, in Saturn's prime, Ere baldness seized the head of Time, While truant Jove, in infant pride, Play'd ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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