Advice, To Guard Against The Temptations Of The Devil (Rees Prichard Poems)
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
Poems about where-e (21 Poems)
Advice, To Have One’s Conversation and Demeanour Always According To The Rules Of The Gospel (Rees Prichard Poems)
Be thy demeanour of the Christian sort,Be it obliging, affable, and right,In ev'ry place to which thou may'st resort,As is ...
The Dove (Matthew Prior Poems)
In Virgil's Sacred Verse we find,That Passion can depress or raiseThe Heav'nly, as the Human Mind:Who dare deny what Virgil ...
Advice To Pray Earnestly, And On All Occasions, Supposed To Be Address’d To His Own Son (Rees Prichard Poems)
FORGET not, on my blessing, thrice a-day,Thy bounden sacrifice of praise to bring,And on thy bended knees devoutly prayBefore thy ...
A Song Concerning The Devil And The Drunkard (Rees Prichard Poems)
FROM the fraudulent fiend, that still without end Most mortals trepans and beguiles,Who wou'd hook us all in, to do ev'ry ...
The Traveller’s Prayer (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou guardian of the weak, thou poor man's friend!Hear from thy glorious throne, Almighty God!That dost thine aid to fearful ...
Ode On The Divine Omnipresence (Henry James Pye Poems)
A College ExerciseI. O sacred Muse! thy aid impart, To rapture wake the sounding lyre! And kindle in my panting heart A spark of ...
We Must Cleave To Christ, Without Suffering Any Thing To Turn Us Away From Him (Rees Prichard Poems)
If father, if mother, if daughter, if son,If houses, if lands, if the wife of thy love —Shou'd strive to ...
Personality (James Lionel Michael Poems)
A change! no, surely, not a change, The change must be before we die;Death may confer a wider range, From pole to ...
On Beauty. A Riddle (Matthew Prior Poems)
Resolve Me, Cloe, what is This:Or forfeit me One precious Kiss.'Tis the first Off-spring of the Graces;Bears diff'rent Forms in ...
To Dr. Richard Helsham Upon My Recovery From A Dangerous Fit Of Sickness. (Mary Barber Poems)
For fleeting Life recall'd, for Health restor'd,Be first the God of Life and Health ador'd;Whose boundless Mercy claims this Tribute ...
A Hymn, To Be Sung Before One Goes To Sleep (Rees Prichard Poems)
My gracious God, and faithful guard!Who, night and day, dost watch and wardThy servant, be thou ever blest,Who dost protect ...
To The Honourable Mrs. Spencer, On Her Removing From Windsor To Rookly In Hampshire. (Mary Barber Poems)
Where--e'er you go, some Actions still we hear,Which make the Goodness of your Mind appear.Hibernia early saw those Seeds of ...
Written at Tunbridge–Wells (Mary Barber Poems)
These Plains, so joyous once to me,Now sadly chang'd appear:Hortensia I no more can see,Who patroniz'd me here.Fair Excellence, where--e'er ...
Verses Occasion’d By The Sickness Of Mrs. Anne Donnellan. (Mary Barber Poems)
Goddess of Health, where--e'er you dwell,To Philomela fly;O hasten from your rural Cell,Nor let the Fair one die.Again her Voice ...
Halcyon Days (Thomas Shadwell Poems)
Halcyon days, now wars are ending.You shall find where-e'er you sailTritons all the while attendingWith a kind and gentle gale.(Thomas ...
Summer – The Second Pastoral; or Alexis (Alexander Pope Poems)
A Shepherd's Boy (he seeks no better name)Led forth his flocks along the silver Thame,Where dancing sun-beams n the waters ...
Song Of The Galley Slaves (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
A devil serves our mastersAnd warps to their desireThe flexing of our sinews,Our hearts' corroding fire;Old as the mists of ...
Holy Thursday (Experience) (William Blake Poems)
Is this a holy thing to see. In a rich and fruitful land. Babes reduced to misery. Fed with cold ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Summer (Alexander Pope Poems)
See what delights in sylvan scenes appear! Descending Gods have found Elysium here. In woods bright Venus with Adonis stray'd, ...