Petrarch to Laura (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
"Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state,"How often must it love, how often hate,"How often hope, despair, resent, regret,"Conceal, ...
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Mary Darby Robinson Poems (142 Poems)
Sir Raymond of the Castle (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[The following little Poems are written after the Model of the Old English Ballads, and are inscribed to those who ...
Old Barnard — A Monkish Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
OLD BARNARD was still a lusty hind,Though his age was full fourscore; And he us'd to go Thro' hail and snow, To a ...
Ode to Vanity (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
INSATIATE TYRANT OF THE MIND; Fantastic, a(Mary Darby Robinson)
The Origin of Cupid — A Fable (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
ON IDA'S mount the gods were met,A sportive, jolly, noisy set,Resolving nectar bowls to quaff,To revel, riot, sing and laugh;For ...
London’s Summer Morning (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Who has not waked to list the busy soundsOf summer's morning, in the sultry smokeOf noisy London? On the pavement ...
The Camp (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Tents, marquees, and baggage waggons;Suttling-houses, beer in flagons;Drums and trumpets, singing, firing;Girls seducing, beaux admiring;Country lasses gay and smiling,City lads ...
January, 1795. (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
PAVEMENT slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty mansions, warm and spacious ...
The Snowdrop (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
The snowdrop, Winter's timid child,Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears;And flings around its fragrance mild,And where no rival flow'rets bloom,Amid ...
Sonnet — The Snow-Drop (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
THOU meekest emblem of the infant year, Why droops so cold and wan thy fragrant head ? Ah ! why retiring to ...