The Love-Lorn Maid (Rebekah Carmichael Poems)
Beneath an aged elm's embow'ring shade,Beside a rill that murmurs through the plain,There lay ORMINA ; Thus the pensive maidSoft ...
Beneath an aged elm's embow'ring shade,Beside a rill that murmurs through the plain,There lay ORMINA ; Thus the pensive maidSoft ...
When Strephon's Verse before my Eyes was laid,With Wonder I the nauseous Stuff survey'd;I read and laugh'd at all the ...
Beneath an Ilfracombe machine,While ...
A THOUSAND sighs that bursting rise,Bid STREPHON here remain,Yet SALLY cried, with woman's pride,Oh ne'er return again.Awhile to stand, and ...
Since my words, though ne'er so tender,With sincerest truth express'd,Cannot make your heart surrender,Nor so much as warm your breast;What ...
In vain, alas! poor Strephon triesTo ease his tortured breast,Since Amoret the cure denies,And makes his pain a jest.Ah! fair ...
Let perjured fair Amynta knowWhat for her sake I undergo;Tell her, for her how I sustainA lingering fever's wasting pain;Tell ...
While Strephon's Verse, with honest Rage reprovesFat Caelia's Pride, and Tyrrel's guilty Loves:Caelia confronted, haughty Airs forgets,And loaded with her ...
Strephon, your breach of faith and trust...Affords me no surprise;A man who grateful was, or just,...Might make my wonder rise.That ...
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
Mourn, Mourn, ye Muses, all your loss deplore, The Young, the Noble Strephon is no more. Yes, yes, he fled ...
STREPHON, ARETHUSA. STREPHON. So fine the season, so serene the sky, Why stands the tear in Arethusa's eye? Our ...
When Summer comesTo silence the retreating drums Of stubborn Winter, when content Shall salve my chill predicament.And I shall loll ...
Though Fortune have so far from me removed, All that I wish, or all I ever loved, And Robbed our ...
I PRAY thee, Strephon, break thy lyre And cease to sing my praise;Indeed, such mockery my ire To ...
Strephon, whose Person ev'ry Grace Was careful to adorn; Thought, by the Beauties of his Face, In Silvia's Love ...
Since Chloe is so monstrous fair,With such an eye and such an air,What wonder that the world complainsWhen she each ...
Soft God of Love! to thee I sing,To thee a wounded Heart I bring;O! hear, O! hear a tender Maid,Who ...
Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber ...
Strephon. You Gote-heard Gods, that loue the grassie mountaines, You Nimphes that haunt the springs in pleasant vallies, You Satyrs ...
You, that decipher out the Fate Of humane Off-springs from the Skies, What mean these Infants which of late Spring ...
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