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Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...

IS there on earth a charm more firmly binds,Than gentle gratitude congenial minds?That Goddess now, at whose soft shrine I ...

Descend , O Muse, With More Than Wonted Fire,Ere Deadly Silence Steals Upon My Lyre; Come, Let The Solemn ...

AS late the Muse in silent hour I sought,And chanc'd to rove the various field of thought,Where many a trifle ...

ONCE more, O Muse, (though long my lyre unstrung,)Arise, and break the silence of my tongue:Come, join with fancy in ...

STERN tyrant! blot on nature's brow! Accurst Revenge! of darkness bred;Engender'd on the dismal bough, Whence issu'd all ...

WHO shall paint Anger in his furious form? The gloomy frown, the flashing of the storm,The violence that overleaps ...

ADVERSITY ! whose gloomy face Still haunts my wearied eye,What bosom can thy sorrows chase, By thee once ...

WHILE thought unbending wings thy playful hour, Say, lovely Princess! dares my Muse advance?Or hope, mild beaming in thy ...

MUST beauty reign with tyrant sway, And every nobler prize excel;Eclipsing with her transient ray, The bosom where ...

OH let my Muse the lyre inflame At Friendship's ever-sacred name;A fair imperishable flower, Though dew'd with many ...

HAIL , Solitude! whose silent sphereIs music to th' harmonious ear.O! waft me from the realms of pride,And let me ...

Emma Lyon Poems on Pride (12 Poems)