Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto III. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
1A sudden bliss has seized my mind,And to a mountain peak it carries meUp where the wind's forgotten how to ...
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
GOOD neighbors, dear, be cautious,And covet no man's pounds or pence.Ambition's greedy maw shun,And tread the path of innocence!Dread crooked ...
The present implies presencethusunauthorized by the presentthese letters are left authorless --have lost all originsince the inscribing handlost life.The harshness ...
How happy is he born or taught,That serveth not another's will;Whose armour is his honest thought,And simple truth his highest ...
Did not my Muse (what can she less?)Perceive her own unworthiness,Could she by some well-chosen theme,But hope to merit your ...
To me that man seems like a god in heaven,seems--may I say it?--greater than all gods are,who sits by you ...
Take not, poetic souls, a word amiss:I mean the unweaned spirits of the age,Male, female, epicoene—'tis all the rageTo write; ...
The sunshine seems much brighter, And the heart is ever lighter, When the rays of sweet Aurora Gild the radiant morning glory With a ...
(The Beggar's Address to His Bag) GOOD neighbors, dear, be cautious, And covet no man's pounds or pence. Ambition's greedy ...
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. I have a story to tell.Lend me your ears, if you've not got ...
Girls!You with the bobbed hair or Mary Pickford curls,Likewise you others Who still adopt the hair-dressing style, That makes the ...
Can you imagine nothing better, brother, Than that which you have always had before? Have you been so content with ...
Be not transported with too great a senseOf any outward object's excellence;For should the pamper'd courser which you feed,Of swiftest ...
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