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 ...
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
PRIDE's the chief source of every human woe,To social happiness the greatest foe;'Mongst various passions which the mind enthrall,Pride is ...
WHAT universal sadness glooms around!Oh! is he gone whose worth the heart reveres!That solemn bell's now doubly awful sound,Alas! too ...
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 ...
IN Life's first dawn, ere Reason's rayRising sheds the promis'd day,Gay Novelty officious flies,With mantle dipt in heav'nly dies;Trifles than ...
COME, thou, who art by all pursu'd;Art thou with magic pow'rs endu'd,To charm each woe, each bliss impart,Fill with delight ...
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 ...
THOU, by whose gen'rous mien, whose open brow,Thy unsubdued majestic heart we know;Whose god-like port proclaims thy race divine,Whose smiles ...
O! friend of Solitude, appear,O! nymph to Contemplation dear,Who oft invokes thy aid;Amid the busy cares of day,No moment owns ...
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 ...
BLIND goddess, whose capricious swayThe thoughtless race of man obey,Whose transient smiles they court;How hapless must thy vot'ries be,Who, lur'd ...
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