The Judgment Of Paris (James Beattie Poems)
1Far in the depth of Ida's inmost grove,A scene for love and solitude design'd;Where flowery woodbines wild, by Nature wove,Form'd ...
1Far in the depth of Ida's inmost grove,A scene for love and solitude design'd;Where flowery woodbines wild, by Nature wove,Form'd ...
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, ...
I.Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climbThe steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!Ah! who can tell ...
1Memory, be still! why throng upon the thoughtThese scenes deep-stain'd with Sorrow's sable dye?Hast thou in store no joy-illumined draught,To ...
From the Latin of Addison.The pygmy-people, and the feather'd train,Mingling in mortal combat on the plain,I sing. Ye Muses, favour ...
From the Latin of Addison.The pygmy-people, and the feather'd train,Mingling in mortal combat on the plain,I sing. Ye Muses, favour ...
Yes, yes, I grant the sons of earthAre doom'd to trouble from their birth.We all of sorrow have our share;But ...
I. 1.Peace, heaven-descended maid! whose powerful voiceFrom ancient darkness call'd the morn;And hush'd of jarring elements the noise,When Chaos, from ...
I. 1.O Thou, who glad'st the pensive soul,More than Aurora's smile the swain forlorn,Left all night long to mournWhere desolation frowns, ...
Still, shall unthinking man substantial deemThe forms that fleet through life's deceitful dream?On clouds, where Fancy's beam amusive plays,Shall heedless ...
Laws, as we read in ancient sages,Have been like cobwebs in all ages:Cobwebs for little flies are spread,And laws for ...
A Muse, unskill'd in venal praise,Unstain'd with flattery's art;Who loves simplicity of laysBreathed ardent from the heart;While gratitude and joy ...
When in the crimson cloud of Even,The lingering light decays,And Hesper on the front of HeavenHis glittering gem displays!Deep in ...
At the close of day, when the hamlet is still,And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,When nought but the torrent ...
1Tired with the busy crowds, that all the dayImpatient throng where Folly's altars flame,My languid powers dissolve with quick decay,Till ...
Tir'd with the busy crouds, that all the dayImpatient throng where Folly's altars flame,My languid powers dissolve with quick decay,Till ...
"O ye wild groves, oh, where is now your bloom!"(The muse interprets thus his tender thought)Your flowers, your verdure, and ...
'Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more;I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you;For morn is ...
1Blow, blow, thou vernal gale!Thy balm will not availTo ease my aching breast;Though thou the billows smooth,Thy murmurs cannot sootheMy ...
1Escaped the gloom of mortal life, a soulHere leaves its mouldering tenement of clay,Safe where no cares their whelming billows ...
Farewell, my best-beloved; whose heavenly mindGenius with virtue, strength with softness join'd;Devotion, undebased by pride or art,With meek simplicity, and ...
O thou! whose steps in sacred reverence treadThese lone dominions of the silent dead;On this sad stone a pious look ...
I was a friend, On this sad stone a pious look bestow,Nor uninstructed read this tale of woe;And while the ...
Why, Lady, wilt thou bind thy lovely browWith the dread semblance of that warlike helm,That nodding plume, and wreathe of ...
O how canst thou renounce the boundless storeOf charms which Nature to her votary yields!The warbling woodland, the resounding shore,The ...
LIKE thee I once have stemm'd the sea of life, Like thee have languish'd after empty joys,Like thee have labour'd in ...
Laws, as we read in ancient sages,Have been like cobwebs in all ages.Cobwebs for little flies are spread,And laws for ...
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