A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim (Matthew Prior Poems)
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,On the wood and on the plain!Rain, rain, warm and sweet,Summer wood lush leafy and loud,With ...
I.O'er the bare woods, whose outstretched handsPlead with the leaden heavens in vain,I see, beyond the valley lands,The sea's long ...
I.The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,Had ceased; and sulphury ...
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
Delivered on the first anniversary of the Carolina Art Association, Feb. 10, 1856.THERE are two worlds wherein our souls may ...
Ill fares it with the man whose lips are setTo bitter themes and words that spite the gods;For, seeing how ...
NOW, sitting by her side, worn out with weeping,Behold, I fell to sleep, and had a vision,Wherein I heard a ...
IT was the month of May. Far down the Beautiful River,Past the Ohio shore and past the mouth of the ...
SIR MAURICE was a wealthy lord,He liv'd in the north countrie,Well would he cope with foe-man's sword,Or the glance of ...
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that heFrom a certain townsman there might claim, As ...
Ill, now released,Reckless of late discomfiture, as headOf human strife 'gainst heaven, God's ends world--wide,Inapt to appreciate, as his woeful ...
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,To welcome home mankind's mysterious friendWine, true begetter of all arts that be;Wine, privilege of ...
Late Senior Bishop, African M. E. Church.Death is the common lot of all, Yet nothing do we so much dread;Nothing, that ...
Once on a clear autumnal day, With weary heart and spirit bowed,I sought a silent scene away From all the turmoil of ...
IIN an old play-house, in an old play,In an old piece that has been done to death,We dance, kind ladies, ...
The Brutons thus departed hence, seven kingdoms here begun,--Where diversely in divers broils the Saxons lost and won,--King Edel and ...
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
Retreate (sad passions) to your chanels now, Let sorrowes inundations cease to flow: Griefes, (which distinguish Mortals from the Gods) Ought to be ...
The Patten, Fan, and Petticoat,Three modern Themes of special Note,In parlous Rhimes immortal live,If Rhimes immortal Life can give;The Mouse--Trap ...
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
Sinner.What black, what ugly crawling thing art thou?Spider.I am a spider-------Sinner.A spider, ay, also a filthy creature.Spider.Not filthy as thyself ...
There was an old and quiet man,And by the fire sate he,"And now," he said, "to you I'll tellA dismal ...
(March 4, 1913)Thine aid, O Muse, I consciously beseech;I crave thy succour, ask for thine assistanceThat men may cry: 'Some ...
To the God of all sure mercies let my blessing rise today,From the scoffer and the cruel He hath plucked ...
Whither, oh! whither must the Christian turn?From whom in this momentous Crisis learn?When shall the Church from worldly Pomps be ...
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