A Hymn (James Thomson Poems)
These, as they change, Almighty Father, theseAre but the varied God. The rolling yearIs full of thee. Forth in the ...
These, as they change, Almighty Father, theseAre but the varied God. The rolling yearIs full of thee. Forth in the ...
Beauty deserves the homage of the muse:Shall mine, rebellious, the dear theme refuse?No; while my breast respires the vital air,Wholly ...
Ye fabled Muses, I your aid disclaim,Your airy raptures, and your fancied flame;True genuine woe my throbbing breast inspires,Love prompts ...
'Tis done! dread winter spreads its latest glooms,And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year.How dead the vegetable kingdom lies!How dumb ...
DAVID.What means yon apparition in the sky,Thirsis, that dazzles every shepherd's eye?I slumbering was when from yon glorious cloudCame gliding ...
As thus the patient dam assiduous sits,Not to be tempted from her tender task,Or by sharp hunger, or by smooth ...
Hail, mildly pleasing Solitude,Companion of the wise and good,But from whose holy piercing eyeThe herd of fools and villains fly.Oh! ...
Come, gentle Venus! and assuageA warring world, a bleeding age.For nature lives beneath thy ray,The wintry tempests haste away,A lucid ...
It was a sad, ay 'twas a sad farewell,I still afresh the pangs of parting feel;Against my breast my heart ...
Waked by his warmer ray, the reptile youngCame wing'd abroad; by the light air upborneLighter, and full of soul. From ...
The wanton's charms, however bright,Are like the false illusive lightWhose flattering unauspicious blazeTo precipices oft betrays:But that sweet ray your ...
From those eternal regions bright, Where suns, that never set in night, Diffuse the golden day;Where Spring, unfading, pours around,O'er all the ...
Tell me, thou soul of her I love, Ah! tell me, whither art thou fled;To what delightful world above, Appointed for the ...
When last we parted, thou wert young and fair,How beautiful let fond remembrance say!Alas! since then old time has stolen ...
Come, dear Amanda, quit the town,And to the rural hamlets fly;Behold! the wintry storms are gone;A gentle radiance glads the ...
Madam, the flower that I received from you,Ere I came home, had lost its lovely hue:As flowers deprived of the ...
GIVE a man a horse he can ride, Give a man a boat he can sail; And his rank and ...
Hail, mildly pleasing solitude, Companion of the wise and good; But, from whose holy, piercing eye, The herd of fools, ...
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...
THE wine of Love is music, And the feast of Love is song: And when Love sits down to the ...
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