Leander And Hero (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
COME , SESTOS and ABYDOS , aid my song;To you these elegiac strains belong.Your griefs with mine, ye wretched cities, ...
COME , SESTOS and ABYDOS , aid my song;To you these elegiac strains belong.Your griefs with mine, ye wretched cities, ...
MISFORTUNE'S stings transfix the purest heart,And souls, unknown to guilt, with anguish smart.Not virtue can secure the good man's state,Nor ...
A TALE, FROM MARMONTEL'S INCAS OF PERUWHEN o'er the western world IBERIA'S bandsWith blood and rapine stain'd their guilty hands;When ...
HAPPY the land, round which the ocean flows,Whose ebbing waves its fertile soil compose.The shepherd fearless leads his flocks to ...
SIR OSMOND'S youth in camps was bred,And manly sports still pleas'd his age:Beneath his spear the wolf had bled;His arm ...
ADOWN yon fair sequester'd valeA silver stream meandering flows;Thick on its banks the primrose pale,And sweet the azure violet blows.Around ...
RELENTLESS war, must still thy dreaded callThe tender lover from his mistress part?From beauty's eyes bid tears of anguish fall,And ...
O THOU ! to whom each thought unchanging tends,To thee these lines a wretched captive sends.In vain did love our ...
MY canty, witty, rhyming plughman,I haftin's dout, it is na' true, man,That ye between the stilts was bred,Wi' plughman school'd ...
OR MELANCHOLY FATE OF CAPT. PIERCE AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. ETERNAL Power! who rul'st with sovereign willWho bid'st the tempest ...
AT first, the favour'd parents of mankindDelighted rov'd thro' EDEN'S fragrant bow'rs;Where spring and autumn, in sweet union join'd,Form'd all ...
OR THE DESERTED LOVER. ONCE rosy pleasure bless'd my smiling hours,And all her scatter'd joys around me shed:For me of ...
COME thou, th' APOLLO who my song inspires,And warms my breast with more than poets' fires;For whom my numbers still ...
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