On The Abolition Of The African Slave-Trade (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHAT blest design in Albion's Council moves,Which earth with pleasure views, and heav'n approves?'Tis a design humanely just and kind,Worthy ...
WHAT blest design in Albion's Council moves,Which earth with pleasure views, and heav'n approves?'Tis a design humanely just and kind,Worthy ...
O SUMMER! hither bend thy cheerful way,Our clime shall gladly hail thy sway;O! come in all thy flowery pride,With rural ...
YOUTHFUL Queen of sportive pleasures,Wake thy lute to airy measures;Tripping o'er the gayest green,Deck'd with roses, thou art seen,And every ...
BY Summer's hand profusely drest,Here Nature in her gayest vest,Salutes th' attentive view;What graces this bright spot adorn!Here colours radiant ...
AH! what enchanting scenes the eye beholds,When Spring her tender buds unfolds,To meet the rising blush of morn,And smiling green ...
A TRUCE with life's tumultuous cares,Fled from the world's entangling snares,Let rural joys the mind unbend:Where sportive Health delighted roves,Mid ...
COME Contemplation, in whose mienAwful Wisdom sits serene,Pleas'd shall the eye thy form survey;No gaudy plumage decks thy brow,Nor dazzling ...
THE storms seem fled, the Sun's warm beamDarts chearful o'er the sparkling stream,And melts in tears the gelid snow,Stern Winter ...
O thou, who with the world had'st birth,Who rul'st despotic o'er the earth,To whom its life each creature yields;Man, bird, ...
AWAKE! ye sons of sloth and ease,Can wild and senseless dreams yet please?Ye oft bewail how short your race,Yet idly ...
NOW earth's beauteous scenes o'ershading,Twilight her grey mantle flings;Now the realms of day invading,Darkness spreads his ebon wings.From the distant ...
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 ...
WHEN Spring luxuriant scatters new delights,The mountain's verdant slope our steps invites,To crown whose lofty brow o'er-bending treesWave their thick ...
O COME, welcome visitor, clothe by degreesOur fields in their annual vest;Hang thy fleeces unsoil'd on our bushes and trees,Tho' ...
SWEET spot! with magic scenery graced,The abode of elegance and taste,Where Nature's charms, improv'd by art,Pour delight o'er every heart:Here ...
CLAD in a fog, dim Evening draws around, Adieu, thou cold, short space, a winter's day;Now chilling damp o'erspreads the ...
AWAKE! my muse, expand thy gentle wing,And in thy flight the Morn's bright beauties scan;Nor e'er forget in grateful lay ...
THE sun ascends a cloudless sky,The moistening dews before him fly;How sweet to pace the fields at dawn,This mild, serene, ...
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 ...
SWEET warbler! whose mellifluent strainThus nightly cheers the lonely plain,Who tun'st thy voice when all are mute,In that wild note ...
HOW happy in his reed-roof'd cot,The rural peasant's humble lot,Who with the soaring lark foregoes,At early dawn his sweet repose:Round ...
HOW fresh the gentle vernal breeze,That softly moves the stately trees,Time-hallowed elms, which clustering meet,To form a canopy complete;A path ...
AUTUMN with solemn step draws near,Sober evening of the year;When the trees are half embrown'd,And falling leaves bestrew the ground.What ...
MEEK flow'ret! earliest child of Spring,Her bloomy tribe thy hand shall lead;Thou, first thy welcome boon to bring,From Winter's bondage ...
WELCOME, rosy-tinted May,Thy presence shall each cloud dispel;Thy smiles the tedious hours repay,Spent in Winter's dreary cell.The village maids shall ...
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