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 ...
COME, Holy Spirit, love divine, Thy cleansing power impart;Each erring thought and wish refine, That wanders near my heart.There let they quick'ning ...
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 ...
I HAVE seen thee again, my beloved,Thou art come in the pride of thy youth,With thy beauty a garment about ...
FAREWELL thou restless world, whose unsound joy,False hopes, and vain pursuits, man's life destroy;Poison in golden cups thou gav'st to ...
MY span of life will soon be done, The passing moments say;As lengthening shadows o'er the mead Proclaim the close of day."Oh ...
O Moon, that sailest in the heavens above,Inscrutable, pale, beautiful, alone.Art weary of thy solitary throne ?Dost long sometimes for ...
The days are sped, and never shall return,Days of deep joy, which Helen did beguileWide her sweet presence and enchanting ...
BE hush'd my tongue, nor murmur or complain;With pious awe the struggling tear restrain.Dark is my path and intricate my ...
THE hardest task the Christian heart can know,Is to relinquish all it loves below.Where creature comforts, tender ties, conspireTo rule ...
While the whole world is filled with noise of battle,And cries from many a devastated land,While day by day our ...
SAY, wretched wanderer, whom the world insnares,Do all thy joys compensate half thy cares?Where is the balm to ease the ...
Nature her gifts is bringingTo deck the fields anew,And all the birds are singing,And all the skies are blue,And all ...
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 ...
Once again in thy meadows of Christ Church,Through thy chapels and gardens againI walk as of old, while thy towersRing ...
Sail not too rashly out to sea,My friend, nor, fearful of the roarOf winds and waters, hug too closeThe rocky ...
The man of pure and blameless lifeNeeds no stout armour in the strife,Nor poisoned arrow-head, nor knifeOf Moorish fashion.Whether o'er ...
WHEN wing'd with gay prosperity The hours unheeded flew,A gracious God protected me From ills I never knew.Though louring skies on me ...
E'EN to the height of God's eternal throne,Where my affections, my desires, are gone.No view of this frail, fleeting scene ...
R.M.S. Lusitania. Sunk by GermanSubmarine, 7th May, 1915Long since their scattered bones are bleached and bare.Fishes have fouled them, waters ...
Sunk 15th April, 1912Requiescat in PaceHow shall we honour the unburied dead ?Shall we go forth with loud acclaim, and ...
Bert AlwardThe brawling voices babble as beforeThough one is hushed : the noblest and the bestIs taken from our midst, ...
AH hapless maid! whose virtues, once thy own,The lustre of thy brilliants far outshone;Couldst thou awhile thy waken'd self attend,And ...
Lady of the Garden, noFairer spot than this can be,Proud with Summer's bravest show,Sweet to smell and fair to see.Lady ...
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