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 ...
"The winds whistled loud the bleak caverns among, The nightingale fearfully lower'd her song, The moon in dark vapors retir'd; ...
"SWEEP on, ye winds-congenial billows roar, As, lost, I wander on your dubious shore; In sad review each shudd'ring vision ...
"DEATH. Lady, lady, come with me, I am thy true friend; New and strange sights shalt thou see If thine ...
"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 ...
"HOW sadly, sweet seraph, I mourn that I never, I ne'er was so happy thee living to know! How sadly ...
"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 ...
"What hast thou done, oh! wretch despairing? Think with horror on thy crime; Deep remorse, thy bosom tearing, Ne'er must ...
"Oh! I shall ne'er forget thee, wretched wight! While memory holds forget thee shall I never; Thy conscious form, that ...
"YOU tell me, fair one, that you ne'er can love, And seem with scorn to mock the dangerous fire; But ...
"OH, lovely youth! why seem thy cheeks so pale? Oh, lovely youth! why are thine eyes so hollow? Oh, live! ...
"I lay reclin'd, And weary of my fate, With joy I would have chang'd my wretched state; When on the ...
"Sweet fragile flow'r, that bloom'st unsought, And bloom'st unseen by many an eye, Thy charms awake my pensive thought; And ...
"Die my love-I'll not regret thee- Die, and me of hope bereave: If thou liv'st, what ills beset thee! Die, ...
"Lady, whither would you stray? Tempt no more this dang'rous wood; Blood-besprinkled is the way, Evil lurks, to injure good. ...
"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 ...
"(IMPROMPTU.) How dare you say that still you love? In truth you'll move my rage, Or, likelier far, my scorn ...
"OVER the moor a lady fair Took her way so sadly; Her face was pale, her bosom bare, Sweet she ...
"YOU tell me that you truly love: Ah! know you well what love does mean? Does neither whim nor fancy ...
"AVAUNT thee, soft Eloquence, exquisite harm! Nor longer thy poison impart, Nor longer endeavour, thou dangerous charm, To lure Sensibility's ...
"FULL well I know what love does mean, Full well its force and tyranny, And captive in love's chains have ...
"Ruin seize thee, ruthless man! Confusion on thy steps attend; Thy life exceed a mortal's span, And terror haunt thee ...
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