The Portrait (John Pierpont Poems)
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his ...
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his ...
Description of Peru, and of its Productions—Virtues of the People;and of their Monarch, ATALIBA —His love for ALZIRA —Their Nup-tials ...
O well is thee! King Numa,Within thy secret cave,Where thy bones are ever moistenedBy sad Egeria's wave;None now have power ...
Tents, marquees, and baggage waggons;Suttling-houses, beer in flagons;Drums and trumpets, singing, firing;Girls seducing, beaux admiring;Country lasses gay and smiling,City lads ...
OR,A DESCRIPTION OF A CAMPIN THE YEAR 1800.TENTS, marquees , and baggage-waggons;Suttling houses; beer in flaggons;Drams and trumpets; singing, firing;Girls ...
The hoop, the darling justly of the fair,Of every generous swain deserves the care.It is unmanly to desert the weak,'Twould ...
I. Like the sweet Naiad of the Grecian's dreams,A Spirit born of Song — unseen, all-seeing—Lives deep within our dark ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
Once more among our archangelic hillsThe streets of this old, grave, and gracious townThrob with renewing vigor as when SpringRushes ...
The Survival Of The Gods1 TwilightThe gods of Nature abdicateWhen man intrudes too far:The Dryad leaves her woodland state,And ...
IVirgin of the vestal flame, Numa's child so chaste and fair,Ah! Floronia is thy name! Goddess of the raven hair;Weepest ...
To the Vestals Those priests which first the Vestal fire begun, Which might be borrow'd from no earthly flame, Devis'd ...
High on a rock, coaeval with the skies, A Temple stands, rear'd by immortal pow'rs To Chastity divine! ambrosial flow'rs ...
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