Vision Of Columbus – Book 8 (Joel Barlow Poems)
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil'd the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o'er the ethereal vault; the ...
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil'd the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o'er the ethereal vault; the ...
The days how few, how short the yearsOf man's too rapid race!Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,A shorter in its ...
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
THE ARRIVALThe sunlight of a waning winter daySent one long ray, aflame, across the gloomWhere Ludovico, Count of Ventimiglia,Bowed his ...
The lovers, in the following poem, were descended of houses that had been long at variance. The Lady is first ...
All night she wept the hours away,With burning cheek and throbbing head,Crying, "Alas!" and "Well-a-day!""Woe is me, for my sons ...
My dear Relation, and the Friend I love,You've put to me a question I approve:I therefore think myself in duty ...
I will not build on yonder mount;And, should you call me to account,Consulting with myself, I findIt was no levity ...
As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce,All winter drives along the darken'd air;In his own loose-revolving fields, the ...
Oh! who shall dare in this frail sceneOn holiest happiest thoughts to lean, On Friendship, Kindred, or on Love?Since not Apostles' ...
For the first time since he was bornHer son, her rose without a thorn,They are at variance, they who wereAlways ...
As if chiseled, a fruit-laden branchHangs in my garden, asleep - so low...The trees sleep - and dream? - in ...
FROM all division let our land be free,For God has made her one: complete she liesWithin the unbroken circle of ...
What hath Love with Thought to do?Still at variance are the two.Love is sudden, Love is rash,Love is like the ...
Now in the fright of change when bombed towns vanishIn fountains of debrisWe say to the stranger coming across the ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
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