Damon And Philander (Janet Little Poems)
DAMON.THE sun with keenness darts his sultry ray;To some cool shade Philander haste away,Nigh yon smooth riv'let, where the southern ...
DAMON.THE sun with keenness darts his sultry ray;To some cool shade Philander haste away,Nigh yon smooth riv'let, where the southern ...
INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WAN-DERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALLAT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TOBE VISITED ...
JOIN now Apollo the harmonious strain,O Muses, Graces, all ye gentle train;Once more conspire to aid my humble lays,And wake ...
JUNE, 1790.ERE Phoebus' beams exhal'd the pearly dew,While hoary moisture all the fields o'erspread,Where ozier cypress, and the drooping yew,Had ...
O HAPPINESS! where art thou to be found?What bow'r is blest with thy perpetual gleam?From court, from cot, ev'n while ...
WHEN first Alcanzar to the town did come,The people all believ'd that he was dumb:In troops, with hasty steps to ...
DIREFUL indeed are thy effects, O love!When Reason's voice deserts thy frantic shrine;Platonic lessons no asylum prove;His dictates must obsequious ...
AS Celia, who a coquette was,O'er fading charms lamented,She frown'd upon her looking-glass,And thus her spleen she vented."Thou silly, stupid, ...
FOR THELOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE.WHAT tongue can half my woes express?What force of eloquence can tell?The causes of ...
TO-DAY old wrinkl'd Time appears;A smile adorns his brow,While to our list of fleeting years,He adds the ninety-two.Our fav'rite hopes, ...
I.HAIL meek-ey'd maid! of matchless worth!Our best companion here on earth;To thee sole pow'r is giv'n,T' illume our dark and ...
WILL gentle LOUDOUN deign to lend an ear,When nature speaks, and sorrow drops a tear?Within your walls my happiness I ...
FROM HIS MISTRESS.IN awful solitude, in direful chains,Where deep despair and sad reflection reigns,If yet thy breast another's woes can ...
WHAT means this silent, solitary gloom?All nature in her dishabille appears;Contracted flow'rets yield no sweet perfume,And ev'ry grove a dismal ...
YE swains unacquainted with love,Attend to my pitiful lay:My pipe shall resound through the grove,And my woes in sad accents ...
TRANSIENT proves our sweetest pleasure,Short our moments of delight;While we grasp the darling treasure,O how rapid is its flight?Oft at ...
BY Cupid and Bacchus I'm sadly perplex'd,Both parties to hear I incline:The urchin for ever comments on this text,Beware of ...
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