The Universe (Henry Baker Poems)
A POEM. Intended to restrain the Pride of Man.Thy Works, Eternal Power by whom she sings!The Muse attempts, and tunes ...
A POEM. Intended to restrain the Pride of Man.Thy Works, Eternal Power by whom she sings!The Muse attempts, and tunes ...
Philosophy.Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws,Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause:Who, without Fear, his certain Fate can ...
Hunger.See Famine.The Morning came, the Night, and Slumbers past,But still the furious Pangs of Hunger last:The cank'rous Rage still gnaws ...
Love.See Lover. Venus.Great Love! thy Empire o'er the World extends!To thy soft Charms the whole Creation bends!On Hills, in Streams, ...
God.See Chance. Providence.Know first, that Heav'n, and Earth's compacted Frame,And flowing Waters, and the starry Flame,And both the radiant Lights ...
Storm at Land.See Tempest.Oft have I seen, when now the Farmer broughtThe Reaper to his yellow Fields, and boundHis Sheaves ...
Funerals.Mean time, the Trojan Troops with weeping Eyes,To dead Misenus pay his Obsequies.First, from the Ground a lofty Pile they ...
Virtue.See Man Upright. Pleasure.'Tis Virtue, Friend, to be averse to Vice,And the first Step towards being really wise,Is to be ...
Mercury.--Preparing to obeyHis mighty Father's Will, first to his FeetHe binds the golden Sandals, which on WingsBear him aloft, as ...
Ambition.The Sisyphus is he, whom Noise and StrifeSeduce from all the soft Retreats of Life:To vex the Government, disturb the ...
Policy of State.To strictest Justice many Ills belong,And Honesty is often in the Wrong:Chiefly when stubborn Rules her Zealots push,To ...
Patience.See Consolation.--Where--e'er the FatesCall, or recall Us, let Us follow still:Whate'er it be, all Fortune is subdu'dBy Patience.--Evils, for which ...
Dress, and Good Breeding.Be not too finical, but yet be clean,And wear well fashion'd Cloths, like other Men.Nor sputt'ring speak, ...
Bees.See Labour.Of all the mute Creation, These aloneA public Weal, and common Int'rest know,Imbody'd: and subsist by certain Laws.Mindful of ...
Apollo.When bright Apollo leaves his Winter--SeatLycia, and Xanthus' Stream, and in it's TurnVisits his native Delos, to restoreThe Festivals: About ...
Dissolution of all Things.See Death.So shall one Hour, at last, this Globe controul,Break up the vast Machine, dissolve the Whole,And ...
Cow.--Best the CowOf Aspect sour: her Head unshap'd and large,Her hanging Neck enormous: from her ChinHer swagging Dewlaps to her ...
Education.See Example. Parents and Children.Let no indecent Speech, or Action vile,Be known within the Walls where Youth is bred:Far, far ...
How vain is Man! how foolish all his Ways!How short, and yet, how sorrowful his Days!From Life's first Moment, to ...
I.Hymen! the Bridal--bed prepare,Summon all the Loves together;Virgins! Undress the blushing Fair,Hoping, fearing, lead her thither.II.At length, forbear to rob ...
I.Consider, Flora! Age will come,And on You lay his icy Hand,Which, even Beauty can't withstand:Eternal Fate has so decreed;The Roses ...
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