Helen And Sedley (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
A TALE FOUNDED UPON A NOVEL,ENTITLED" HELEN OF GLENROSS."FAIR Helen was the loveliest maidThat Scotia's land has seen;A sylph-like form, ...
A TALE FOUNDED UPON A NOVEL,ENTITLED" HELEN OF GLENROSS."FAIR Helen was the loveliest maidThat Scotia's land has seen;A sylph-like form, ...
NOT far from Tyvy's banks and bayAn humble dwelling rose;Around its walls the woodbine twin'd,Encircled with the rose.The purple violet ...
NOT in a verdant varying vale,Not shelter'd by a wood,Not sweetly fann'd by zephyr's gale,Or margin'd by a flood,Whose gentle ...
DECEMBER'S hollow winds had howl'd,And whistled through the air;The leafless trees an emblem stoodOf sorrow and despair.Beneath an aged oak ...
FOUR beggars at once! each imploring a poet,If the muses inspire, on their persons to show it;But the Helicon's distant--and ...
YOUNG Edward was a noble youth,A finer ne'er was seen;He was his aged gran-dam's pride,And lov'd by all the green.Yet ...
YOU request me, my friend, on true courage to write;Yet do you reflect, that whilst I indite,Or attempt to explain ...
'TWAS on a gloomy sombre night,When clust'ring clouds had form'dInto a mass so densely thick,That Nature seem'd appall'd!The whistling winds ...
SAID a beau to his friend, who resides on Brook Green,"Oh, Charles! near your house I've a new beauty seen!Her ...
OH Death! insatiate archer! why on mePour forth thy vengeance with a shaft so keen?Why was no other victim mark'd ...
AH! why did no foreboding fear foretelThe dire misfortune which I now deplore?Why, dearest Charlotte, when I said farewell ,Did ...
COULD the cards, dear Louisa, which herald your name,Be endow'd with the pow'r of proclaiming your fame,At each door where ...
ENCLOS'D within a spot of earth,A form superior lies,Endow'd with talents great and rare,Humane, sincere, and wise!Oh, Pemberton! thy matchless ...
A SYLPH, my dear aunt, is the gift which I send,In the hope it will warm , and comfort my ...
WHEN the charters of England by worth are maintain'd,And each citizen's right supported unstain'dBy corruptive measures, or fraudulent deeds,At which ...
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