Vox Populi (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
Yea peoples of the earth, put not your trustIn princes, nor in any child of manSet over you in lordship, ...
Yea peoples of the earth, put not your trustIn princes, nor in any child of manSet over you in lordship, ...
Then to her answered and spake great Hector the waving-crested :" I too grieve for all this, dear love, but ...
YE gentle days that once were mine, In every charm of life array'd,No more awaken my regret, No more my settled peace ...
WHILE others, lost in pleasure's guilty round, Blast the glad season of their fleeting youth,Let me in solitary joys abound, Fond of ...
What is he thinking lying there so still,This tiny piece of soft humanity,This little unknown stranger in our midst ?Is ...
VAIN are those joys that erring man provides, Vain the pursuit of sublunary things!Wisdom the sandy edifice derides, Scoffs at the fading ...
Long ages since, a band of earnest men,With zealous hearts uplifted, sought to raiseA noble house in honour of their ...
FAREWELL thou restless world, whose unsound joy,False hopes, and vain pursuits, man's life destroy;Poison in golden cups thou gav'st to ...
O Moon, that sailest in the heavens above,Inscrutable, pale, beautiful, alone.Art weary of thy solitary throne ?Dost long sometimes for ...
SAY, would the teeming earth its treasures yield,Or grateful plenty crown the smiling field,If bright'ning suns unceasing warm'd the plain,And ...
While I was the king of your heart, love,And you kept all your kisses for me,I'll wager no king on ...
Sail not too rashly out to sea,My friend, nor, fearful of the roarOf winds and waters, hug too closeThe rocky ...
Sunk 15th April, 1912Requiescat in PaceHow shall we honour the unburied dead ?Shall we go forth with loud acclaim, and ...
The angry sun slow sinking in the west,Casts one last lingering glance upon the earthWhich he has parched and withered ...
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