Corsica (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
'TIS past! The sultry tyrant of the southHas spent his short-liv'd rage; more grateful hoursMove silent on; the skies no ...
EdwardHist, William! hist! what means that air so gay?Thy looks, thy dress, bespeak some holiday:Thy hat is brushed; thy hands, ...
——— and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. ———The Muses are turned gossips; ...
WHEN Cupid, wanton boy, was young,His wings unfledg'd, and rude his tongue,He loiter'd in Arcadian bowers,And hid his bow in ...
God of my life! and author of my days!Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;And trembling, take upon a ...
Jehovah reigns: let every nation hear,And at his footstool bow with holy fear;Let heaven's high arches echo with his name,And ...
WHO IS EXPECTED SOON TO BECOME VISIBLEGerm of new life, whose powers expanding slow For many a moon their full ...
Again the Lord of life and lightAwakes the kindling ray;Unseals the eyelids of the morn,And pours increasing day.O what a ...
Praise to God, immortal praise, For the love that crowns our days;Bounteous source of every joy,Let thy praise our tongues ...
To learned Athens, led by fame,As once the man of Tarsus came,With pity and surpriseMidst idol altars as he stood,O'er ...
Pure spirit! O where art thou now! O whisper to my soul!O let some soothing thought of thee,The bitter grief ...
Gentle pilgrim, tell me whyDost thou fold thine arms and sigh,And wistful cast thine eyes around?-Whither, pilgrim, art thou bound?"The ...
Behold, where breathing love divine,Our dying Master stands!His weeping followers gathering roundReceive his last commands.From that mild teacher's parting lipsWhat ...
Child of distress, who meet'st the bitter scornOf fellow-men to happier prospects born,Doomed Art and Nature's various stores to seeFlow ...
When, as returns this solemn day,Man comes to meet his maker God,What rites, what honours shall he pay?How spread his ...
Sleep, sleep today, tormenting caresOf earth and folly born!Ye shall not dim the light that streamsFrom this celestial morn.Tomorrow will ...
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