Belshazzar’s Feast (Joanna Baillie Poems)
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
WHO presses on my knee this kindly pat,And with a merry archness in my faceLooks up?--a youngling of my own ...
WHILE fogs along the Thames' damp margin creep,And cold winds through his leafless willows sweep;And fairy elves, whose summer sport ...
ASK you, "What charms first chain'd my heart,"And held me from the world apart,"Made young ambition's turmoil cease,"And blest me ...
WITH rapture, Annan! all exclaim,Thy banks how varied and how gay!Why should a name, well known to fame,Unsung remain in ...
SWEET bud of promise, fresh and fair,Just moving in the morning air,The morn of life but just begun,The sands of ...
I'VE seen my day before its noon decline,And dark is still the future, nor, alas!Can Hope, with all the magic ...
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