Blank Lines to Kitty (James Hurdis Poems)
Elegant Fairy, whose engaging waysHave rais'd thee to a throne in my esteemHigh above all thy sex!-Unrivall'd maid,Who, ever to ...
Elegant Fairy, whose engaging waysHave rais'd thee to a throne in my esteemHigh above all thy sex!-Unrivall'd maid,Who, ever to ...
HEARD you November's howling blast,Herald of winter's stormy reign,As through the leafless grove it rush'd,And swept with sullen sound the ...
O saw ye not fair Ines?She 's gone into the West,To dazzle when the sun is down,And rob the world ...
BLOW lovely rose-the breath of ZephyrSoftly fans thy glowing breast:Blow, lovely rose, the bush adorning,Till by Chloe's hand carest,She place ...
A BARD, unlike the bards of yore,Who drew from Aganippe's well,Inspiring draughts of poesy,As their harmonious numbers tell;Unlike the Roman ...
VAUNT not, thou blooming sweet, love-tinted Rose,O'er whose rich beauties each wild Zephyr blows,Thy charms unequall'd, or unrivall'd power;Though Joy ...
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
_HARCOMBE NEAR LYME_September: 1878 Before me with one happy heave Of golden green the hillside curves, ...
THERE is a king which all the world must own,From him who begs to him who fills the throne;There is ...
HAIL , happy Sister! great in arts and arms,In manly valour and in female charms;Whose classic sons the noblest honours ...
IF , when far distant, memory should pourtrayThe sweet enjoyments of a former day;If she should reign and by her ...
THOU image of the dearest friend I love,If I remote in foreign scenes should rove,If such my unexpected lot should ...
'Tis hard to say, where my first Thanks are due,To the great Author, or the gen'rous You.His teaching Pen refulgent ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
A farmer's wife, both young and gay, And fresh as op'ning buds of May; Had taken to herself, a Spouse, ...
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well, May calm and sunshine long be thine! How fair thou art let others tell -- ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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