The Triumph Of Pleasure (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"BEAUTY reclin'd beneath the shade; Blooming Health before her play'd; Her golden tresses kissed the wind. Meek Content, with placid ...
"BEAUTY reclin'd beneath the shade; Blooming Health before her play'd; Her golden tresses kissed the wind. Meek Content, with placid ...
"DEATH. Lady, lady, come with me, I am thy true friend; New and strange sights shalt thou see If thine ...
"SWEEP on, ye winds-congenial billows roar, As, lost, I wander on your dubious shore; In sad review each shudd'ring vision ...
"AH! poor negro Sadi, what sorrows, what anguish Oppress the lone victim fate dooms for a slave! What eye or ...
"THE breeze was hush'd; the modest moon-beam slept On the green bosom of the treach'rous wave; The lover Marli wander'd ...
"As I cross'd the desert wild, Not a star amid the gloom, Loud and harsh the tempest howl'd, Driving vapours ...
"Silent he stalk'd, and ever and anon He shudder'd, and turn'd back, saying, ""Who follows?"" Horror had blanch'd his check; ...
"ROSY Bacchus and Pallas once had an affray, Where neither would precedence yield; For each seem'd determin'd on gaining the ...
"AH, mock not me! for you have never lov'd, Nor have you e'er, like me, its sorrows prov'd, Nor have ...
"As on a rock's stern brow entranc'd I lay, The deaf'ning surges bursting at my feet, Light Fancy at my ...
"SEE'ST thou yon lily in its blooming pride, Its snowy bosom op'ning to the view, Surcharg'd with gems of bright ...
"WILD thro' the desert woods Alzira flew! Her robe disorder'd hung; Wet were her locks from midnight's chilly dew, Her ...
"OH, lovely youth! why seem thy cheeks so pale? Oh, lovely youth! why are thine eyes so hollow? Oh, live! ...
"Sweet fragile flow'r, that bloom'st unsought, And bloom'st unseen by many an eye, Thy charms awake my pensive thought; And ...
"AND what is life? A fleeting shade, A cheerless, beamless, frozen glade, A span too short for joy to smile, ...
"Say, where am I? Can you tell? Is my heart within my breast? Am I bound in magic spell, Or ...
"FULL well I know what love does mean, Full well its force and tyranny, And captive in love's chains have ...
"SINCE to hope for true love is but folly, And woman's the plaything of man, My soul sinks in deep ...
"OH! Passion, seducer of heart and of soul! Thou transport tyrannic! half pleasure, half pain! Why consum'st thou the breast ...
"THE greatest bliss Is in a kiss- A kiss of love refin'd, When springs the soul Without controul, And blends ...
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