The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book II. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
The jocund years with smiling plenty crown'd,In shining circles now advanc'd their round:Unbounded crops reward the reaper's toil,And rustick pleasures ...
The maid begins.-Where fam'd Coaspes lavesRich Elam's borders with his sacred waves,Along the fields their tents the shepherds spread,By them ...
Their father's blessing on their knees they take,And now to Memphis quick advances make,Where safe arriv'd, but fearful of their ...
Still with impatient love Sabrina pines,And now to speak the fatal truth designs;Sooth'd by her own indulgent hopes, which traceA ...
But now Sabrina's guilty fire returns, Her bosom with the raging passion burns: She with a female tenderness relents, And ...
Celestial Muse that on the blissful plainArt oft invok'd, to guide th' immortal strain;Inspir'd by thee, the first-born sons of ...
'Twas night, and now advanc'd the solemn hour;The keeper of the prison, from his tow'r, Astonish'd, sees a form divinely ...
Mean time the Pagan deities, displeas'd To find the public storms so soon appeas'd, Studious attempt by new malicious ways, ...
Mean while thro' savage woods, and deserts vast, The captive with his Midian masters past. At last rich Egypt's pleasant ...
The Night her blackest Vestments had put on,And all the fair remains of day were gone:When my dear Lord, as ...
Amaryllis. While from the skies the ruddy sun descends,And rising night the evening shade extends;While pearly dews o'erspread the fruitful ...
Beauty complete, and majesty divine,In all thy works, ador'd Creator, shine.Where'er I cast my wond'ring eyes around,The God I seek ...
Whate'er delights the verdant field,The grove, and mossy fountain yield;Whate'er the gentle, blooming spring,Or summer in their glory bring;Let them ...
Yet, gentle shade! whether thou now does rove,Thro' some blest vale, or ever verdant grove,One moment listen to my grief ...
(Virgins.)But where, ah where can this bright wonder be?For, till we see Him, we are all on Fire;We'll find Him ...
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