Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto I. (John Gay Poems)
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise,That most forgot from which true bliss would riseWhen marriage for a daughter ...
Amazement.See Alarm.To Him the Wind with doubtful Terror waftsThe mingled Noise: hoarse Murmurs of Distress,And Clamours from the City pierce ...
WHERE ancient broken wall encloses round,From tread of lawless feet, the hallowed ground,And sombre yews their dewy branches wave,O'er many ...
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
The Western sun, ere he sought his lair, Skimm'd the treetops, and ...
OR SKETCHES OF HIGHLAND SCENERY AND MANNERS: WITH SOME REFLECTIONS ON EMIGRATION. WRITTEN DURING THE AUTHOR'S RECOVERY FROM A LONG ...
A LEGENDARY TALE.NOW near drew the time when fair Ann was allow'd To visit her lover confin'd; To mingle ...
O THOU ! to whom each thought unchanging tends,To thee these lines a wretched captive sends.In vain did love our ...
LIKE souls that balance joy and pain, With tears and smiles from heaven again The maiden Spring upon the plain ...
THE sweet enthusiast, on a rock reclin'd, With transport listen'd to the dashing waves;Her snowy garments swam upon the ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
To the River Otter Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West! How many various-fated years have past, What happy ...
LIKE souls that balance joy and pain, With tears and smiles from heaven again The maiden Spring upon the plain ...
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