St. John XXI. 1. (Joanna Baillie Poems)
TOIL-WORN upon their wavy sea,With empty nets and wasted store,The fishermen of GalileeAre steering cheerless to the shore.But lo! upon ...
TOIL-WORN upon their wavy sea,With empty nets and wasted store,The fishermen of GalileeAre steering cheerless to the shore.But lo! upon ...
O SKY! O lucid sky of May!O'er which the fleecy clouds have stolen,In bands snow-white, and glimmering-gray,Or heart-steeped in a ...
My barns are full, my stores increase,And now, for many years,Soul, eat and drink, and take thine ease,Secure from wants ...
From the German of Gellert.Gott, deine Gute reicht so weit,So weit die Wolken gehen; &c.O GOD, thy goodness doth extendFar ...
The boys come home, come home from war, With quiet eyes for quiet things --A child, a lamb, a flower, a ...
Happy is England! I could be contentTo see no other verdure than its own;To feel no other breezes than are ...
The mole's a creature very smooth and slick,She digs i' th' dirt, but 'twill not on her stick;So's he who ...
Though fast youth's glorious fable flies,View not the world with worldling's eyes;Nor turn with weather of the time.Foreclose the coming ...
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
'Tis the summer prime, when the noiseless airIn perfumed chalice lies,And the bee goes by with a lazy hum,Beneath the ...
On Santa Croce's golden-pillared shrine, A thousand tapers pour their blended rays In one rich tide of radiance. Like a ...
A CHILD of the hard-hearted world was I, And a worldling callous of heart,And eager to play with the ...
WANDERING in the still of eve, While songsters homeward cleave the air, With lively notes my voice I tun'd, To ...
THOU pretty Bird, it is not here That thou art used to sing;Thou art not wont, on perch like ...
So die, thou child of stormy dawn,Thou winter flower, forlorn of nurse;Chilled early by the bigot's curse,The pedant's frown, the ...
The sweet South-wind is breathing o'er Fair beauty's flower of love; The birds a gladsome song do pour On all-around-above: ...
PEOPLE'S ATTORNEY, servant of the Right! Pleader for all shades of the solar ray, Complexions dusky, yellow, red, or white; ...
Yes, I could trust, forever and a day, Thy constant heart to any worldling's wiles, Surround thy senses with the ...
Happy is England! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own; To feel no other breezes ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
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