A Pastoral Dialogue (Melibæus, Alcippe, Asteria, Licida, Alcimedon, and Amira. ) (Anne Killigrew Poem)
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
TEll me thou safest End of all our Woe, Why wreched Mortals do avoid thee so: Thou gentle drier o'th' ...
Life as we know it hangs in the balance if the predictions, the fear, come to pass, if the ice ...
A CERTAIN husband who, from jealous fear, With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear, Deprived his wife of ...
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task, ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Your soul was lifted by the wings today Hearing the master of the violin: You praised him, praised the great ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
Doth then the world go thus? doth all thus move? Is this the justice which on earth we find? Is ...
There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five. There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice ...
Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come, visit ev'ry pious mind; Come, pour thy joys ...
I can love both fair and brown, Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays, Her who loves loneness ...
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite, How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white, How Genius, ...
When Winchester races first took their beginning It is said the good people forgot their old Saint Not applying at ...
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
O YE whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious rev'rence, and attend! Here lie the loving ...
I heard an angel speak last night, And he said 'Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send it ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all be advised by me, And don't believe what the ...
Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use, Did after him the World seduce: And from the Fields the Flow'rs ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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