The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry, The day-tides many-shaped and hued; I see the nightfall shades subtrude, ...
This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; ...
IF to a girl who loves us truly Her mother gives instruction duly In virtue, duty, and what not,-- And ...
I never dreamed we'd meet that day In our old haunts down Fricourt way, Plotting such marvellous journeys there For ...
I am the lover's eyes, and the spirit's Wine, and the heart's nourishment. I am a rose. My heart opens ...
Equality is absolute or no. Nothing between can stand. We are the sons Of the same sire, or madness breaks ...
This life is sweetest; in this wood I hear no children cry for food; I see no woman, white with ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
BEHOLD, my love, how green the groves, The primrose banks how fair; The balmy gales awake the flowers, And wave ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Tell her that’s young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung, In deserts where no men ...
Because life's passing show Is little to his mind, There is a man I know Indrawn from human kind. His ...
A pote is sure a goofy guy; He ain't got guts like you or I To tell the score; He ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
WHERE o'er my head, the deaf'ning Tempest blew, And Night's cold lamp cast forth a feeble ray; Where o'er the ...
SORC'RESS of the Cave profound! Hence, with thy pale, and meagre train, Nor dare my roseate bow'r profane, Where light-heel'd ...
Spare, gen'rous victor, spare the slave, Who did unequal war pursue; That more than triumph he might have, In being ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
See how the Orient Dew, Shed from the Bosom of the Morn Into the blowing Roses, Yet careless of its ...
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