To The Gad-Fly (George Moses Horton Poems)
Majestic insect! from thy royal hum, The flies retreat, or starve before they'll come; The obedient plough-horse may, devoid of fear, Perform his ...
Majestic insect! from thy royal hum, The flies retreat, or starve before they'll come; The obedient plough-horse may, devoid of fear, Perform his ...
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
When on life's ocean first I spread my sail,I then implored a mild auspicious gale;And from the slippery strand I ...
Blest Babe! it at length has withdrawn, The ...
Hail happy pair from whom such raptures rise,On whom I gaze with pleasure and surprize;From thy bright rays the gloom ...
As smoke from a volcano soars in the air, The soul of man discontent mounts from a sigh, Exhaled as ...
So teach me to regard my day, How small a point my life appears; One gleam to death the whole ...
I loved thee from the earliest dawn, When first I saw thy beauty's ray; And will until life's eve comes ...
Come, thou queen of every creature, Nature calls thee to her arms ; Love sits gay on every feature, Teeming ...
Thou mayst retire, but think of me When thou art gone afar,Where'er in life thy travels be, If tost along ...
I'll love thee as long as I live, Whate'er thy condition may be; All else but my life would I ...
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