Sonnet: on Hearing the Torture was Suppressed (John Codrington Bampfylde Poems)
Sonnet on Hearing the Torture was Suppressed Throughout the Austrian Dominions, in Consequence of Beccaria's Treatise on Crimes and PunishmentsHail ...
Sonnet on Hearing the Torture was Suppressed Throughout the Austrian Dominions, in Consequence of Beccaria's Treatise on Crimes and PunishmentsHail ...
THIS morn ere yet had rung the matin peal, The cursed Merlin, with his potent spell, Aggrieved me sore, and from his ...
As when, to one who long hath watched, the morn Advancing, slow forewarns the approach of day, (What time the young and ...
All ye who far from town in rural hall, Like me, were wont to dwell near pleasant field, Enjoying all the sunny ...
AROUND my porch and lowly casement spread; The myrtle never-sear, and gadding vine, With fragrant sweet-briar love to intertwine; And in my garden's ...
WITH footstep slow, in furry pall clad,His brows enwreath'd with holly never-sear,Old Christmas comes, to close the waned year;And ay ...
How fearful 'tis to walk the sounding shore,When low'rs the sky, and winds are piping loud!And round the beech the ...
WHEN that the fields put on their gay attire,Thou silent sitt'st near brake or river's brim,Whilst the gay thrush sings ...
Rings the shrill peal of dawn, gay ChanticleerThrice warning that the Day--star climbs on high,And pales his beam as Phebus' ...
What numerous votaries 'neath thy shadowy wing,O mild and modest Evening, find delight!First to the Grove, his lingering Fair to ...
Slow sinks the glimmering beam from western sky,The woods and hills obscur'd by Evening greyVanish from mortal sight, and fade ...
October's flood had all deform'd the lea,And wintry blasts the forest wide had rent,When to the Muses Bower I blithsome ...
How pleasant 'tis to walk the silent shore,When scarce the humming tide can reach mine ear!Of scatter'd mist the Sun ...
'Tis not for Muse like mine, in rude essay,To paint the beauties of thy Classic Page;Which ay deserve far other ...
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