Ode On The Divine Omnipresence (Henry James Pye Poems)
A College ExerciseI. O sacred Muse! thy aid impart, To rapture wake the sounding lyre! And kindle in my panting heart A spark of ...
Henry James Pye Poems (56 Poems)
Elegy IX (Henry James Pye Poems)
AVON. WRITTEN DURING THE STRATFORD JUBILEE. From the clear stream that o'er her grotto flows The silver-slipper'd Avon slowly rose, And pensive on ...
The Fourth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Psaumis of Camarina, on his Victory in the Chariot Race. ARGUMENT. The Poet, after an invocation to Jupiter, extols ...
Elegy IV (Henry James Pye Poems)
When the still Night withdrew her sable shroud, And left those climes with steps sedate and slow; While sad Aurora, kerchief'd in ...
Elegy VIII (Henry James Pye Poems)
WRITTEN AT MINSTED IN THE NEW FOREST O rising Sun! on this auspicious day With brighter beams gild every hill and grove; Ye ...
Elegy VII (Henry James Pye Poems)
ADDRESSED TO A PINE-TREE. The ruffian North has spent his savage power, Collects his winds, and quits the mountain's side; And Auster mild, ...
The Myrtle And The Bramble (Henry James Pye Poems)
A FABLE. Luxuriant with perennial green A Myrtle young and lovely stood, Sole beauty of the wintry scene, The fairest daughter of the wood: Close ...
Written In The Year 1779, When The Combined Fleets Were Off Plymouth (Henry James Pye Poems)
When the keen axe remorseless laid The woods of Edgecombe low, Lest now their leafy skreen should aid The approaches of the foe; Astonish'd ...
Prologue, Intended for “Vortigern” (Henry James Pye Poems)
The cause with learn'd investigation fraught,Behold at length to this tribunal brought,No fraud your penetrating eyes can cheat,None here can ...
The Vine (Henry James Pye Poems)
Like clustering tents upon the embattled mead, See Vitis thick her small pavilions spread. Beneath each silken veil, with studious care Five amorous ...
Two Fragments Of Pindar’s Threni, (Henry James Pye Poems)
Preserved By PlutarchON THE SITUATION OF THE BLEST.While sable night o'er mortal' headsHer gloomy mantle silent spreads,On them with undiminish'd ...
The Snow-Drop (Henry James Pye Poems)
Hail earliest of the opening flowers! Fair Harbinger of vernal hours! Who dar'st unveil each silken fold Ere Sol dispels the wintry cold, And ...
A Fragment Of Simonides (Henry James Pye Poems)
Dana(Henry James Pye)
Song: “The flowers of the Spring that enamel the vale” (Henry James Pye Poems)
The flowers of the Spring that enamel the vale, Give their dyes to the meadows, their sweets to the gale, From the ...
Song: “Let no Shepherd sing to me ” (Henry James Pye Poems)
Let no Shepherd sing to me The stupid praise of Constancy, Nature bids her subjects range, All creation's full of change. See the varying ...
To William Mitford, Esq. (Henry James Pye Poems)
Mitford, the candid Critic of my lays, Who oft when wild my careless Muse would sing Smooth'd the rough note, and check'd ...
A Greek Scolion, Or Song (Henry James Pye Poems)
By CALLISTRATUS, On HARMODIUS and ARISTOGEITONIn myrtle wreaths my sword I bear,As, fir'd by zeal, the illustrious pairConceal'd from view ...
Song: “Fair Delia while each sighing swain ” (Henry James Pye Poems)
Fair Delia while each sighing swain Whose heart your charms adores, Fills with his tender vows the plain, And favoring smiles implores: My Wishes ...
Epitaph On Charles D’Aussey, Esquire (Henry James Pye Poems)
IN HOLY-ROOD CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON. When Pomp, when Wealth, when Greatness sink to dust, Though Vanity adorn the splendid bust, Sincerer drops of tributary ...
Sonnet II, Written At Cliefden Spring (Henry James Pye Poems)
Here from the rifted rock, where boldly rise The ilex shining with perennial green, The gloomy pine, the beech's vivid skreen, Hoar oaks ...
Sonnet I, Written At Cliefden Spring (Henry James Pye Poems)
Majestic Thames, whose ample current flows, The wood reflecting in its silver tide, Which, hanging from the hills that grace thy side, O'er ...
Verses Addressed To A Lady (Henry James Pye Poems)
Of toil you say a moderate share In each pursuit should rise, Too much may make our hearts despair, Too little we despise: In ...
Dedication: Sent With The Second Edition Of The Poem To His Majesty The King Of Prussia (Henry James Pye Poems)
Imperial Bard! if while my humble strainThy precepts sung to Albion's warlike train,Her critic ear approving caught the sound,And favoring ...
Sent To Dr. Hayes, With The Ode To Harmony (Henry James Pye Poems)
As Man's dull form inert and silent lay, A senseless heap of unenliven'd clay, Till bold Prometheus with ethereal flame Rous'd into life ...
Epigram. Omnia Vincit Amor. (Henry James Pye Poems)
O Love, though Virgil's lays ascribe Resistless power to thee, Yet still I thought the happy tribe Of Dulness, ever free; Potent I deem'd ...
Epitaph On A Child (Henry James Pye Poems)
Cruel the pang to hear the struggling sigh, Watch o'er the faded cheek and closing eye; See infant innocence with parting breath Its ...