A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell (James Thomson Poems)
Thir.Say, tell me true, what is the doleful causeThat Corydon is not the man he was?Your cheerful presence used to ...
Thir.Say, tell me true, what is the doleful causeThat Corydon is not the man he was?Your cheerful presence used to ...
The Liberty Bell—the Liberty Bell—The Tocsin of Freedom and Slavery's knell,That a whole long year has idle hung,Again is wagging ...
Never was there lovelier townThan our Falmouth by the sea.Tender curves of sky look downOn her grace of knoll and ...
"Angel of wrath! why linger in mid-air, While the devoted city's cryLouder and louder swells? and canst thou spare, Thy full-charged vial ...
ACCOMPANYING MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTED TO A FRIEND.'T is said that in the Holy LandThe angels of the place have blessedThe pilgrim's ...
LIKE the vultureWho on heavy morning cloudsWith gentle wing reposingLooks for his prey,—Hover, my song!For a God hathUnto each prescribedHis ...
A lawyer had a legal mouse,A naughty one they say,That took possession of his houseAnd papers ev'ry day,His books and ...
Of the bright things in earth and air How little can the heart embrace!Soft shades and gleaming lights are there - I ...
SKIRTING the swamp and the tangled scrub,Tramping and turning amidst the trees,Carrying nothing but blankets and grub,Careless of pleasure and ...
"Oh that my head were waters," and mine eyes A tearful fountain, ever running over,A heart that bleeds, and struggles, moans, ...
CROUCHED low in a sordid chamber,With a cupboard of empty shelves,Half starved, and, alas, unableTo comfort or help themselves,Two children ...
There was never a castle seen So fair as mine in Spain:It stands embowered in green, Crowning the gentle slopeOf a hill ...
_Youth_ dreams of all the years shall hold,--Of poems writ, of battles won,Of statues made, of love, of gold,And honors, ...
Drudgery all the day, Drudgery half the night,—Scolded about and worried away,Begrudged of sleep, and victuals and pay,And always in dread ...
A.HOW bitterly you speak!B.I have good warrant.A.Well, for my part, I hold your creed is false.Uncharitable, monstrous! I have seenThe ...
Some men there are who stand so straight,So equipoised, that others' fateSeems to depend on their behest;And useless all our ...
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough hew them as we will."—-ShakspereBehold with awe, and high adoring wonder,The living car ...
WHAT of our time?(Oracle.)A fog and a blur,A hum and a whirr,And large mellow lights that are slowly dawning;Lo! elements ...
"Look up!" cried the seaman, with nerves like steel, As skyward his glance he cast,And beheld his own son grow giddy, ...
In the glade a pipe is played,By the forest green and still,Where Stoyana, fair, sweet maid,Runs for water to the ...
He will not sleep: by Moscow's lurid glareOf fiery columns darting to the skies-By her sad widows' wail and orphans ...
Once a turtle, finding plenty In seclusion to bewitch, Lived a dolce far niente Kind of life within a ditch; Rivers had no charm ...
GOD'S order, "Light!" when all was void and darkBrought mornless noon, a flame without a spark.A gift unearned, that none ...
NO, let it stay. It speaks but truth:My Autumn's day is dawning.The dream is past; sweet dream of youth.Hair, I ...
1.In the Grass: Halt by the WaysideIn my tired, helpless bodyI feel my sunk heart ache;But suddenly, loudlyThe far, the ...
How blest the man who, in these peaceful plains,Ploughs his paternal field; far from the noise,The care, and bustle of ...
Haunted by unknown feet-Ways of the midnight hour!Strangely you murmur below me,Strange is your half-silent power.Places of life and of ...
A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be that sing it well. Let them sing it loud and ...
"COME to me for wisdom," said the mountain;In the valley and the plainThere is Knowledge dimmed with sorrow in the ...
Through airy roads he wings his instant flightTo purer regions of celestial light;Enlarg'd he sees unnumber'd systems roll,Beneath him sees ...
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