Enigma XXVIII. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
THE pilot's at the helm,Yon vessel's course to mark;Yet shall destruction soon o'erwhelmThe unsuspecting bark.Triumphant now she ridesUpon the treach'rous ...
THE pilot's at the helm,Yon vessel's course to mark;Yet shall destruction soon o'erwhelmThe unsuspecting bark.Triumphant now she ridesUpon the treach'rous ...
OF virtuous Agrippina's son,Who on proud Rome's imperial throne, Succeeds Tiberius dead;The muse with unfeign'd sorrow sings,And all-reluctant tunes ...
WHAT teacher of Israel shuns the broad light,The first feeble dawnings of faith to conceal,And, fearful of men, seeks the ...
WHEN Cyrus, call'd the younger, fought Against his king and brother,What eunuch who'd cut off the headAnd right hand ...
BRING a poet, whose writings our book-shelves adorn,At Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire, born,Let the name of a regicide also be heard,Who ...
To that magnificent chateau resort,Where Louis Fourteenth held his splendid court,And let both curiosity and tasteBe gratified, ere from the ...
Say for what city of the plain"God once heard Abram plead in vain"Yet did in sov'reign mercy spareJust Lot, who ...
WHAT virtuous philosophic Greek,Of whom mankind with rev'rence speak, By poison doomed to die,Rejects the favourable hour,To thwart capricious ...
WHERE the great Turkish prophet lies,Entomb'd beneath Arabian skies,Where Darnley fell a sacrifice To his fair consort's ire;Where fam'd ...
Who to Tiberius was espoused, Ere he the sceptre sway'dWhat Theban chief by glory rous'd, War against Sparta ...
Who brought at MarathonThe Persian power low?Who at AlexandriaSubued the Gallic foe?Who in George the Second 's reignWrote "Thoughts composed ...
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