Lines Adressed To A Young Friend, During A Visit At The Sea Coast (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SWEET girl! affection's pleading voice attend,And hear the tender counsels of a friend;By friendship's pen impress'd, these lines receive,And tho' ...
Elizabeth Bath Poems on Mind (31 Poems)
Lines, (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
On the Sudden Death of my muchrespected and highly valuedFriend, Susannah Davidson, Sen. of London. READER tho' health, and strength, ...
Reflections In A Burial Ground (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
BEHOLD the sod where the tir'd pilgrim rests,Death, sole proprietor, his sceptre rears,And reigns triumphant o'er the conquer'd dust.Silent and ...
Address To Solitude (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
THOU tranquil friend! to thee I'll fly, When foes my peace invade;With thee shall ev'ry care subside, Nor ...
Lines (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
Descriptive of the character of an ingenious Youth, whose brilliant talents shone conspicuously among his admiringfriends, who were unexpectedly called ...
A Summer’s Evening’s Contemplation (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
THO ' around on creation I gaze, And am struck with its wonderful plan;Yet regret must be mingled with ...
A Fragment (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
FANCY shall fix my lone abode, Where human foot ne'er trod;Peace shall surround my humble cot,For ever ...
On The Fading Enjoyments Of Time (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
ALTHO' to man's aspiring pride, It may appear degrading;Yet look on all the world around,And say what ...
The Advantages Of Resignation (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
ALL things are order'd for the best, In perfect love design'd;The sorrows that we so much dread, But ...
Written At Close Of Day (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
WAKED to reflection at this solemn hour, When day retiring leaves the mind to tread ...
Addressed To A Friend (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
IF , when far distant, memory should pourtrayThe sweet enjoyments of a former day;If she should reign and by her ...
To The Bee (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
HAIL harbinger of spring! Already on the wing,Humming thy lengthen'd notes along the vale; ...
To Hope (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
FAIR deceiver, smiling phantom, By thy false, thy treach'rous light;How we paint each distant object, Dazzling to the ...
To The Memory Of A Much Loved Sister (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
DARK is the hour inscrib'd on memory's page, Too often drawn from sad affliction's store;Of future sorrows the too ...
To Sensibility (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SOFT Sensibility! subduing power,Thy thorns are wounding while I pluck the flower;Thy influence all unseen, beyond controul,Rouses each finer feeling ...
To Modesty (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
CELESTIAL guest whose holy touch, True beauty can bestow;From thee youth's sweet expanding flower, Receives its finest glow.Thine ...
An Address To Poetry (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SWEET Poesy, whose soothing pow'r can chace The fiendlike forms which all our joys invade,When in thy flowing numbers ...
On Silence (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
WITHDRAWN from busy man, the mind regainsIts wonted strength when solemn stillness reigns;For silence proves a shelter for the mind,When ...
Evening (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SOFTLY , Evening shades the skies,Quick the golden lustre flies;Calm we see the day retire,While Evening's sober thoughts inspire.Pensive pleasures ...
On Poverty (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
DARK is the cloud which hov'ring o'er the mind,Shades the bright promises of early youth;Nips all its blossoms, blights the ...
To Charity (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
PARENT of good, thou essence from on high,Pure emanation from the Deity,Not to the favour'd sons of wealth confin'd,Thou humble ...
Address To Emma, On Her Departure For The Country (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
WHEN to a distant scene remov'd, Louisa far away;Say, will not Emma, to her friend, One anxious thought ...
Written In Condemnation Of Satire (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SHEATHE , sheathe the sword while yet you may,Be wise and harmless tho' you're gay.As once to sober thought inclin'd,This ...
To The Rainbow (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
HAIL glorious arch in Heav'n, whose varied diesGilds the dark vapours that obscure the skies;Whose matchless colours charm th' attentive ...
Address To Beauty (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
ELOQUENT deceiver! say, With each soft, each fond endeavour;Canst thou bid the fragile clay, Live and last and ...
To Conscience (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
THOU stern reprover of the midnight hour, When mortals slumber and the world retires;Then shall the sleepless wretch confess ...
Sonnet I (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
WHAT happy hours of innocence and love, Hope pictures to the mind, ere time and careHer softening ecstacies her ...
Sonnet III (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
ON INFANCY.AH joyous period! when the opening mind Puts forth its buds of thought. I love to trace ...
Sonnet II (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
FULL oft beneath the steril soil conceal'd, The richest veins of golden treasures lie;So genius may, her glory unreveal'd, ...
Sonnet (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
STRONG and elastic is the mind of youth, Rebounding from the recent stroke of pain;But sage experience tells the ...