Ode To Melancholy (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
AND THE DEATH OF LORD NELSON. HIGH on a rock, whose craggy browO'erlooks the subject main below,Her throne Britannia rears;And ...
AS Henry, with the maid he loved,The garden's mazy circles moved,With contemplative eye survey'dThe flow'rs in summer pride array'd; Their ...
O POWER Supreme! whose awful wordAgain commands th' avenging swordO'er guilty man to glare;Lord! while thy judgments yet impend,Before thy ...
THE storms seem fled, the Sun's warm beamDarts chearful o'er the sparkling stream,And melts in tears the gelid snow,Stern Winter ...
IF, when the Spirit quits her clay-built cell,With incorporeal essences to dwell,Attachments form'd on earth their force retain,And with increasing ...
HAIL! sable queen of soft repose,Who bid'st the weary eyelids close,To Sleep's profoundest sway resign'd;Or, still more pleasing to the ...
AND is that beauteous Star eclips'd in night,Which late in Brunswick's constellation shone?Whose rays with mild effulgence beam'd so bright,And ...
HARK! the glad horn's sonorous strain,Responsive to the shouting swain,Proclaims the harvest o'er;The master of the field stands by,And views ...
O! friend of Solitude, appear,O! nymph to Contemplation dear,Who oft invokes thy aid;Amid the busy cares of day,No moment owns ...
RELIGION! fairest child of Heav'n,Why art thou drawn with brow austere?Sweet cherub guide to mortals giv'n,Why clad in frowns severe?Thy ...
AND hath thy soul forsook her suffering clay?Doth the chill tomb enwrap thy grief-worn frame?Closed are those eyes which beam'd ...
See where yon spacious structure meets the eye!When, wing'd with zeal, intent on mortals' good,Fair Charity, first offspring of the ...
WHAT means, alas! that sudden burst of tears?Oh Death! no common victim dost thou crave;No vulgar spirit mounts th' ethereal ...
SCARCE the sad tomb on one loved child had closed,Nor had the parents' bosoms ceas'd to bleed;A soften'd calmness had ...
LORD of the year! whose word commandsThe seasons o'er what favour'd landsTo shed profuse their stores;Or where to turn the ...
THOU, Winter, with protracted sway,Dost still thy lingering flight delay,Still 'neath thy veil of snow,The charms of Nature lie conceal'd,To ...
THE bell has paused! to my reluctant earThis mournful truth its awful accents tell;Yon solemn train in silent sorrow bearA ...
UNUSUALLY alert, young SpringIs stretching wide her purple wing,To renovate the Earth;Already o'er our wint'ry IsleShe sheds her joy-diffusing smile,And ...
THE sun in mists his glory shrouds,The fields delight no more;November's brow is dark with clouds,The year's gay youth is ...
NUMBERS xxiii. 10"Let me die the death of the Righteous, and let my last end be like his." HOW vain, ...
THE voice of public sorrow bursting forth,Mixt with the widow's sighs, the orphans' tears,Speaks the departure of a man of ...
THOU silent monitor, whose powersCan thus with truth display,How swiftly glide the fleeting hoursThat form Life's transient day.Thy hand yet ...
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