Tale XVI (George Crabbe Poems)
THE CONFIDANT.Anna was young and lovely--in her eyeThe glance of beauty, in her cheek the dye:Her shape was slender, and ...
THE CONFIDANT.Anna was young and lovely--in her eyeThe glance of beauty, in her cheek the dye:Her shape was slender, and ...
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
While others sing the fortune of the great, Empire and arms, and all the pomp of state; With Britain's hero ...
Three young girls in friendship met;Mary, Martha, Margaret.Margaret was tall and fair,Martha shorter by a hair;If the first excelled in ...
Oft have we parted Love! beforeWith prospects darkly shadow'd o'er,But never have we sunder'd yet,With such wild hopelessness as now,Since ...
O THOU! who dwell'st in heav'n alone,Whose beams surround th' Omniscient's throne,'Tis by his just decrees denied,That thou with mortals ...
WHEN Solitude's calm voice invites,To taste her pure, unmix'd delights,What can in charms the rural scene surpass?While yet moist Morn's ...
OF THE PRIORY,CORNWALL. WHEN the awaken'd soul receivesThe first impression fancy gives,Temper'd by soft affection's reign,Sweet are the days of ...
ETERNITY! how dread thy sound!It strikes with sacred awe profound;Can I thy theme pursue?What thoughts sublime thy name conveys,What prospects ...
An hour's respite; once more the heart may dream: the thunderwheels of passion thro' the eve, distantly musical, vaporously agleam, ...
WELL may you droop your pretty head,You'll press the teat no more,Your halcyon days of unmix'd bliss,Poor little babe, are ...
Love, with rosy fetter, Held us firmly bound;Pure unmix'd enjoyment Grateful here we found.Bosom, bosom meeting, 'Gainst our youths we ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
FROM those drear solitudes and frowsy cells, Where Infamy with sad Repentance dwells; Where turnkeys make the jealous portal fast, ...
We will not like those men our offerings pay Who crown the cup, then think they crown the day. We ...
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