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 ...
YE sons of Brute, of Trojan blood,A lively, lovely, loving brood,Attend in haste, and to my strains draw nigh,With an ...
Mourn Cambria, thoughtless Cambria, mourn.From all thy sins repentant turn,Lest they God's wrath, and judgements dread,Shou'd draw upon thy guilty ...
Let ev'ry Christian, who wou'd chuse to knowHow he shou'd to God's blessed table go,These precepts learn, and in his ...
YOUNG Edward was a noble youth,A finer ne'er was seen;He was his aged gran-dam's pride,And lov'd by all the green.Yet ...
O God of mercy, soft-ey'd Pity's Sire!For Jesus sake, my num'rous faults pass o'er,Which more Arithmetic, I own, requireTo count, ...
WHEN first thou wakest, each succeeding day,Lift up to God above thy grateful eyes,And due respect to him be sure ...
Reader, I am a fool;And have adventuredTo play the fool this once for Christ,The more his fame to spread.If this ...
AH! why did no foreboding fear foretelThe dire misfortune which I now deplore?Why, dearest Charlotte, when I said farewell ,Did ...
AS Scotland's monarch forth did goTo hunt in Falkland's wood;Then Ruthven Gowry, bowing low,Before the king there stood.This youth was ...
Jesus, by whose grace I live,From the fear of evil kept,Thou has lengthen'd my reprieve,Held in being while I slept.With ...
O King of Terrors, whose unbounded Sway All that have Life, must certainly Obey; The King, the Priest, the Prophet, ...
That you must die, not Truth itself more true;Nor less is this, that unprepar'd are youWho careless live, although to-morrow's ...
O King of Terrors, whose unbounded Sway All that have Life, must certainly Obey; The King, the Priest, the Prophet, ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
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