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 ...
LO! what descending cherub, robed in light,With dazzling beams o'erwhelms the sight?Is it a Genius of th' etherial spheres?Or Angel ...
O MUSIC! soul-enchanting nymph, advance,Thro' magic maze to guide the measur'd dance,Or aid the tremulous voice,When fired with Nature's charms ...
BRITANNIA's sons, once more rejoice,Let jocund mirth your cares dispel;Be it proclaim'd with cheerful voice,Each tongue the glad'ning tidings tell.Your ...
FAR from contention, envy, strife,Be mine the tranquil path of life,To lift the cottage simple latch,Where woodbines climb the lowly ...
THE Mind, from Reason's earliest ray,Till freed from her imprisoning clay,Her every power employs,The aerial form of Happiness to gain,But ...
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 ...
HAIL! temp'rate Autumn, Nymph sedate,With russet clad in simple state,Thou claim'st the votive lay;Thy dew the thirsty earth revives,Each drooping ...
O! friend of Solitude, appear,O! nymph to Contemplation dear,Who oft invokes thy aid;Amid the busy cares of day,No moment owns ...
QUEEN of the blest Angelic Choir!Bright native of the spheres!Whose pow'rs all Nature's works inspire,Whose notes, entranc'd, she hears,'Tis thou ...
'TIS done! the Despot's reign is o'er,The kingdoms freed, shall groan no moreBeneath his impious sway;Who, rais'd by the Almighty's ...
ON Albion's favour'd shores againWhat shouts of conquest strike the ear!Victorious on the watry plain,Her warlike sons appear.Let France, in ...
WHAT images arrest the mental view,As lonely I the rural path pursue!With sad regret fond Fancy hovers o'erThe shades of ...
TOO long the kingdoms of the world,Have own'd a Tyrant's beck;Altars and Thrones in ruin hurl'd,Have shared one common wreck.BRITANNIA ...
AND does yon dome its lord revered deplore?The friend, the patron of th' industrious poor;Whose bounty in no narrow sphere ...
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