To The Genius Of Romance (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Oh thou ! whose bland intoxicating smile,Darts o'er the gloomy barrenness of LifeIts lustrous day, making the desart bloom,E'en as ...
Oh thou ! whose bland intoxicating smile,Darts o'er the gloomy barrenness of LifeIts lustrous day, making the desart bloom,E'en as ...
DARK forests clothe the mountain-side, And o'er that mountain's lofty headThe heavens bend their arches wide, And, dome-like, round its summit spread.A ...
I.Awake my Heart, awake my Tongue,Sound each melodious String;In num'rous Verse and lofty Song,To thee, my GOD, I sing.II.Omnipotent Redeemer-Lord,What ...
AH ! Fortune, turn thy mazy wheel,If aught of good the fates conceal, To cheer my natal day;To scatter this unjoyous ...
WHAT wounds more deep than arrows keen,Piercing the heart subdu'd ?What renders life a dreary scene ?--Thy sting, INGRATITUDE !For ...
SWEET is the hour when Contemplation straysO'er breezy woodland, or low-winding dell,List'ning the wild wave's slow-returning swell,Which o'er the rock ...
Single VoiceLo! He comes, the Lord of glory, Peace and triumph in His train;Lo! He comes, by angels guarded,Over all the ...
O LIBERTY ! transcendant and sublime,Born on the mountain's solitary crest,NATURE thy nurse, thy SIRE exulting TIME ,TRUTH the pure ...
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
Ask not the Cause why all the tuneful Swains, Who us'd to fill the Vales with tender Strains, In deep ...
IHow vain is Life! which rightly we compare To flying Posts, that haste away;To Plants, that fade with the declining ...
IS there on earth a charm more firmly binds,Than gentle gratitude congenial minds?That Goddess now, at whose soft shrine I ...
WILD rider of grey clouds, beneath whose breath The stars dissolve in mist, or rain, or sleet;Who chariotest the ...
AH ! Fortune, turn thy mazy wheel,If aught of good the fates conceal, To cheer my natal day;To scatter ...
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name, So in a voice, so in ...
EDINA! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a Monarch's feet, Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs: ...
THE GLOOMY night is gath'ring fast, Loud roars the wild, inconstant blast, Yon murky cloud is foul with rain, I ...
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did ...
High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills, O'er-topping the grand imag'ry of Nature, Where one eternal winter seem'd to reign; ...
WHERE on the bosom of the foamy RHINE, In curling waves the rapid waters shine; Where tow'ring cliffs in awful ...
SORC'RESS of the Cave profound! Hence, with thy pale, and meagre train, Nor dare my roseate bow'r profane, Where light-heel'd ...
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