Sonnet VI (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
TO A PENSWEET comforter, how often have I sought Thy kind relief in sorrow's darkest day!Thou hast from friendship's ...
TO A PENSWEET comforter, how often have I sought Thy kind relief in sorrow's darkest day!Thou hast from friendship's ...
Falsehood to thee would be the blackest crime My conscience frowns at; and 'twere falsehood sure To thee, whose soul ...
This love, that dares not warm before its flameOur yearning hands, or from its tempting treeYield fruit we may consume, ...
CAN one so strong in hope, so rich in bloomThat promised fruit of nobler worth than allHe yet had given, ...
Within my mind I keep a holy plot, Where such ideas as wear unsullied white May move through scenes of ...
Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, —He, like the world, his ready visit paysWhere fortune smiles: the wretched he forsakes, ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress, But soon found I that her door was fasten'd. Yet I had the ...
SONG OF THE IMPRISONED COUNT. COUNT. I KNOW a flower of beauty rare, Ah, how I hold it dear! To ...
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gay From frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad ...
THE bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
"Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me, And what their followers' band boldly and ...
Obit 23rd April 1616 Is it not strange that on this common date, Two titans of their age, aye of ...
EXULT MY MUSE! exult to see Each envious, waspish, jealous thing, Around its harmless venom fling, And dart its powerless ...
SWIFT o'er the bounding deep the VESSEL glides, Its streamers flutt'ring in the summer gales, The lofty mast the breezy ...
O you who lose the art of hope, Whose temples seem to shrine a lie, Whose sidewalks are but stones ...
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