The Universe (Henry Baker Poems)
A POEM. Intended to restrain the Pride of Man.Thy Works, Eternal Power by whom she sings!The Muse attempts, and tunes ...
A POEM. Intended to restrain the Pride of Man.Thy Works, Eternal Power by whom she sings!The Muse attempts, and tunes ...
ELEGY ON EDWARD BETHAM,_Lost in the Duchess of Gordon East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope_. --------Lovely as are the ...
COME blest Urania! thou alone canst soarWith dauntless wing through regions unexplor'dBy mortal eye, and thou alone canst paintThe wonders ...
When rival nations first descried,Emerging from the boundless mainThis land by tyrants yet untried,On high was sung this lofty strain:Rise ...
AND this was she! the peerless and the bright,The false world's darling! she who did possess,(And held awhile in Europe's ...
GOD of this Planet! for the name best fitsThe purblind view, which men of this "dim spot"Can take of THEE, ...
Mother of the Fair Delight,Thou handmaid perfect in God's sight,Now sitting fourth beside the Three,Thyself a woman-Trinity,-Being a daughter born ...
AT first, the favour'd parents of mankindDelighted rov'd thro' EDEN'S fragrant bow'rs;Where spring and autumn, in sweet union join'd,Form'd all ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
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