Edwin and Eltrada, a Legendary Tale (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Where the pure Derwent's waters glide Along their mossy bed,Close by the river's verdant side, A castle rear'd its head.The antient pile ...
Where the pure Derwent's waters glide Along their mossy bed,Close by the river's verdant side, A castle rear'd its head.The antient pile ...
I. While envious crowds the summit view, Where Danger with Ambition strays; Or far, with anxious step, pursue Pale Av'rice, thro' his winding ways; The ...
I. Rise, winds of night! relentless tempests, rise! Rush from the troubled clouds, and o'er me roll! In this chill pause a deeper ...
The troops of ALMAGRO and ALPHONSO meet on the plain of CUZCO —. MANCO -CAPAC attacks them by nights—His army ...
PIZARRO takes possession of Cuzco—The fanaticism of VALVERDA , aSpanish priest—Its dreadful effects—A Peruvian priest put to the tor-ture—His Daughter's ...
I.As wand'ring late on Albion's shoreThat chains the rude tempestuous deep,I heard the hollow surges roarAnd vainly beat her guardian ...
The hollow winds of night no moreIn wild, unequal cadence pour,On musing fancy's wakeful ear,The groan of agony severeFrom yon ...
ALMAGRO'S expedition to Chili—His troops suffer great hardships from cold, in crossing the Andes—They reach Chili—The Chilians make a brave ...
Whether dispensing hope, and easeTo the pale victim of disease,Or in the social crowd you sit,And charm the group with ...
FAIR OTAHEITE , fondly blest By him who long was doom'd to brave The fury of the Polar wave, That fiercely mounts the ...
The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared thelight and the sun.Thou hast set all the ...
As roam'd a pilgrim o'er the mountain drear, On whose lone verge the foaming billows roar,The wail of hopeless sorrow pierc'd ...
I. She comes, benign enchantress, heav'n born PEACE! With mercy beaming in her radiant eye; She bids the horrid din of battle cease, And ...
"Drear cell! along whose lonely bounds, Unvisited by light, Chill silence dwells with night,Save where the clanging fetter sounds! Abyss, where mercy never ...
IN ANSWER TO A POETICAL EPISTLE WRITTEN TOME BY HIM IN WALES, SEPTEMBER 1791. WHILE in long exile far from you ...
CREATION'S GOD ! with thought elate, Thy hand divine I seeImpressed on scenes, where all is great, Where all is full of ...
WHEN fading Autumn's latest hoursStrip the brown wood, and chill the flowers,--When evening, wint'ry, short, and pale,Expires in many a ...
I. Pale moon! thy mild benignant lightMay glad some other captive's sight;Bright'ning the gloomy objects nigh,Thy beams a lenient thought supply:But, ...
WHICH ESCAPED FROM THE WRITER'S HAND, AND FAL-LING DOWN THE AREA OF A HOUSE, COULD NOTBE FOUND.MISTAKEN Bird, ah whither ...
AN INFANT, ON HISFIRST NEW-YEAR'S DAY, 1821.I.DEAR Babe, soft object of my care,Unseen, for whom I pour my pray'r;Unknown, yet ...
HERE rests the image of a friend,-- Thine, cherish'd BIBI , thine!Oft to this spot our steps we'll bend, And call it ...
While soon the "garden's flaunting flowers" decay,And, scatter'd on the earth, neglected lie, The "Mountain Daisy," cherish'd by the rayA poet ...
PATHWAY of light! o'er thy empurpled zone,With lavish charms, perennial summer strays;Soft 'midst thy spicy groves the zephyr plays, While far ...
The glitt'ring colours of the day are fled;Come, melancholy orb! that dwell'st with night, Come! and o'er earth thy wand'ring lustre ...
Meek Twilight! soften the declining day,And bring the hour my pensive spirit loves; When o'er the mountain slow descends the rayThat ...
Siddons! the Muse, for many a joy refin'd,Feelings which ever seem too swiftly fled—For those delicious tears she loves to ...
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