Cooper’s Hill (John Denham Poems)
Sure there are poets which did never dreamUpon Parnassus, nor did taste the streamOf Helicon; we therefore may supposeThose made ...
Sure there are poets which did never dreamUpon Parnassus, nor did taste the streamOf Helicon; we therefore may supposeThose made ...
On these green banks, where falls too soonThe shade of Autumn's afternoon,The south wind blowing soft and sweet,The water gliding ...
YON coward, with the streaming hair,And visage, madden'd to despair,With step convuls'd, unsettled eye,And bosom lab'ring with a sigh,Is Guilt! ...
A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown;A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in the ...
When with a skilful hand Prometheus madeA statue that the human form displayed,Pandora, his own work, to wed he chose,And ...
HOW is it that masters, and science, and art,One spark of intelligence fail to impart,Unless in that chemical union combined,Of ...
What numbers of boats in this river's depths have sunk and disappeared,A single plank of which, even shouldst thou search, ...
When towards his father a son acteth perfidiously,After what manner, to others, will he sincerity show?See, what further perfidy must ...
I LOVED her for that she was beautiful;And that to me she seem'd to be all Nature,And all varieties of ...
Inside the rigid-surfaced bowl of the night,increasing vividness,autumn fruit.Apple and pear and grape varieties,every one of them,piled up as they ...
No pause! The buried pipes ring out,The flour-faced Antic runs from sight;Now Columbine, with scarlet pout,Floats in the smoking moon ...
You that at ev'ry trifling Cross repine, And tax the Ways of Providence Divine; You that to ev'ry soft Temptation ...
On Santa Croce's golden-pillared shrine, A thousand tapers pour their blended rays In one rich tide of radiance. Like a ...
A Report, though false, at that time generally believed. FALLEN are thy towers, Byzantium! towers that stoodBefore the Turk's dread ...
OF Folly weary, shrinking from the viewOf Violence and Fraud, allow'd to takeAll peace from humble life; I would forsakeTheir ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown; A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in ...
For thirty years secluded from mankind, Here Marten linger'd. Often have these walls Echoed his footsteps, as with even tread ...
Is the spider a monster in miniature? His web is a cruel stair, to be sure, Designed artfully, cunningly placed, ...
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one now, at two in the solemnly musical morning, ...
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