To Sleep (Maria Logan Poems)
HASTE! gentle Sleep! in pity shedThy blessings on my weary head:Come! but do not come alone,Bring the partners of thy ...
HASTE! gentle Sleep! in pity shedThy blessings on my weary head:Come! but do not come alone,Bring the partners of thy ...
"HERE! take this potent charm," Mauritius said,"And see if Time hath ought in store for thee;"With care beneath thy downy ...
TO thee, bright Orb, my humid eyes I raise; To thee I sigh, reflecting as I gaze,How dark earth's transitory scenes ...
O THOU, the best of brothers and of friends!Say, who but thee could wake the sleeping lyre?Fann'd by thy breath ...
LET others boast the golden spoil, Which Indian climes afford;And still, with unavailing toil, Increase the shining hoard:Still let Golconda's dazzling pride On ...
THOU lovely penitent! whose long-drawn sighsBespeak a breast o'ercharg'd with silent grief;O lift once more to heav'n thy downcast eyes,Whence ...
A MONKEY-TRIBE that lately bred, By some odd chance in Britain's isle,When comb'd and drest, and wash'd and fed, With lap-dogs shar'd ...
AH ! Fortune, turn thy mazy wheel,If aught of good the fates conceal, To cheer my natal day;To scatter this unjoyous ...
THOU fair enchantress! whose delusive charms Oft-times have drawn my wand'ring feet astray,Oft-times seduc'd me from Reflection's arms, Beyond the light of ...
BEHOLD yonder Maniac! how swiftly she flies, O'er hills, and o'er mountains, still deep'ning her sighs,She laughs at the trav'ller who ...
THE sigh that struggles in my breast,The tear that fain would give it rest, Can no relief impart;Since first I felt ...
IN pity cease-nor thus for ever pour The pois'nous draught of flatt'ry o'er my mind;Why seek to lessen its too little ...
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