Psyche ; or, the Legend of Love: Canto II. (Mary Tighe Poems)
Oh happy you! who blest with present bliss See not with fatal prescience future tears, Nor the dear moment of enjoyment miss Through ...
Oh happy you! who blest with present bliss See not with fatal prescience future tears, Nor the dear moment of enjoyment miss Through ...
The Argument.Both Armeis Ioyne in long and doubtful fightAnd threttie thousand in the ditches dieKing Edwards deids encurage eurie knightAnd ...
Chance.See God. Providence.If Chance these Things bestow'd, and rules the Whole,Why do the Signs in constant Order roll?Observe set Times ...
Amazement.See Alarm.To Him the Wind with doubtful Terror waftsThe mingled Noise: hoarse Murmurs of Distress,And Clamours from the City pierce ...
Baucis and PhilemonTHUS Achelous ends: his audience hearWith admiration, and admiring, fearThe pow'rs of heav'n; except Ixion's son,Who laugh'd at ...
Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame, but jealousie is hell;Some wives by patience have reduc'd ill husbands to live well:As did ...
Strephon & I upon a bank were laid,Where the gay spring in varied colours playd,& her rich odours lavish nature ...
ME Thought I pass'd through th'Edalyan Groues,And askt the Graces, if they could directMe to a Lady whom Minerva chose,With ...
Love, lift me up upon thy golden wingsFrom this base world unto thy heavens hight,Where I may see those admirable ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
GENIUS.Time, Fate, and Fortune have at length conspir'd,To give our Age the day so much desir'd.What all the minutes, houres, ...
While my sad Muse the darkest Covert Sought, To give a loose to Melancholy Thought; Opprest, and sighing with the ...
This fact is clear….Both man and womanPrize not what's good, but what's uncommon ;And most delighted still they are,Not with ...
"THOUGH you be absent here, I needs must say The Trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
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