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 ...
Character of ZAMOR , a bard—His passion for ACILOE , daughter of the Cazique who rules the valley—The Peruvian tribe ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Description of Peru, and of its Productions—Virtues of the People;and of their Monarch, ATALIBA —His love for ALZIRA —Their Nup-tials ...
PIZARRO lands with the Forces—His meeting with ATALIBA —Its un-happy consequences—ZORAI dies—ATALIBA imprisoned, and strangled—Despair of ALZIRA . Flush'd with impatient ...
ADDRESSEDTO MY NEPHEWATHANASE C. L. COQUEREL,ON HIS WEDDING DAY, 1819.CHILD of my heart! while others hailThis festive morn, when joys ...
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 ...
In SENSIBILITY'S lov'd praise I tune my trembling reed,And seek to deck her shrine with bays, On which my heart must bleed!No ...
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, ...
AN OLD LATIN ODE.SUNG ANNUALLY BY THE WlNCHESTER BOYS UPONLEAVING COLLEGE AT THE VACATION. [Translated at the Request of DR. ...
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 ...
While thee I seek, protecting Power!Be my vain wishes still'd;And may this consecrated hourWith better hopes be fill'd.Thy love the ...
OF THE BARONESSD' H------, TO HER TWO DAUGHTERS.BRIGHT nymphs, of NEWA'S banks the pride, Receive, before we part,For you, and your ...
THE Strawberry blooms upon its lowly bed,Plant of my native soil!--the Lime may flingMore potent fragrance on the zephyr's wing, The ...
Oh, thou whose melody the heart obeys,Thou who can'st all its subject passions move,Whose notes to heav'n the list'ning soul ...
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