Ode IX: To Curio (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Thrice hath the spring beheld thy faded fame Since I exulting grasp'd the tuneful shell: Eager through endless years to sound thy ...
I.Thrice hath the spring beheld thy faded fame Since I exulting grasp'd the tuneful shell: Eager through endless years to sound thy ...
Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hatePerfectly all this towne, yet there's one stateIn all ill things ...
Forgive me, dressing gown! My friend in idle bliss,Comrade of leisure, a witness to my secret thoughts!With you I knew ...
Though Philip the Second Of France was reckoned No coward, his breath came short When they told him a dragon As big as a ...
KATE, they say, is seventeen- Do not count her sweet, you know.Arms of her are rather lean- Ditto, calves and feet, you ...
I have listened to this cry of "Woman's Rights," this clamoringfor the ballot, for redress for woman's wrongs, and I ...
has not altered;— a place as kind as it is green, the greenest place I've never seen.Every name is a tune.Denunciations do ...
If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,No peace shall you know, tho' you've buried your wife,At ...
FIRED by applauding Fame's report,AMANTOR sought the dazzling court,Where beauteous dwelt in stately hall,The PRINCESS of the CHRYSTAL ...
Like a bad suitor desperate and tremblingFrom the mixed sense of being not loved and loving,Who with feared longing half ...
A hilltop sought by every soothing breeze That loves the melody of murmuring boughs, Cool shades, green acreage, and antique ...
Like gloved hands at the summer cotillion so were the petals of the sun touching her face, oh so delicately, ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
We shun it ere it comes, Afraid of Joy, Then sue it to delay And lest it fly, Beguile it ...
How fortunate the Grave -- All Prizes to obtain -- Successful certain, if at last, First Suitor not in vain. ...
Death is the supple Suitor That wins at last -- It is a stealthy Wooing Conducted first By pallid innuendoes ...
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
Now this particular girl During a ceremonious april walk With her latest suitor Found herself, of a sudden, intolerably struck ...
has not altered;-- a place as kind as it is green, the greenest place I've never seen. Every name is ...
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