An Ode – Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers (Matthew Prior Poems)
Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend,(Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end)Say, what did all thy busy hopes avail,That anxious ...
Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend,(Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end)Say, what did all thy busy hopes avail,That anxious ...
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
All work is over at the farmAnd men and maids are ripe for glee;Love slips among them sly and warmOr ...
The rising moon on the peaks was blending Her silver light with the sunset glow,When a swagman came as the day was ...
Where the lone creek, chafing nightly in the cold and sad moonshine,Beats beneath the twisted fern-roots and the drenched and ...
As late abroad asleepe I lay, Mee thought I came by wondrous chaunce:Whereas I heard a harper play, And saw great store ...
Dear honest hearted, canty Charlie!To whom I'd trust baith late and earlie;Accept, in token o' regard,Frae rhyming Mac, your friend ...
NOW glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are!And glory to our sovereign liege, King Henry of ...
Wizard. - Lochiel.Wizard.- Lochiel! Lochiel, beware of the dayWhen the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!For a field of ...
We were eight fishers of the western sea,Who sailed our craft beside a barren land,Where harsh with pines the herdless ...
At Carnac in Brittany, close on the bay,They show you a church, or rather the grayRibs of a dead one, ...
I The Sphinx The spires of sand spring up at every gust That bids them dance and scatter and lays them low: He sits ...
"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...
YES , 'tis a year since last that plaintive cry,"Pity the prisoners," touch'd my wand'ring ear:And now again their hat ...
From pain and peril, by land and main,The shipwrecked sailor came back again;And like one from the dead, the threshold ...
THERE was a season when I lovedThe calm and holy night, -When, like yon silvery evening star,Just trembling on our ...
To the memory of my fatherAt Thurgarton Church the sunburns the winter clouds overthe gaunt Danish stoneand thatched reeds that ...
Late in March, when the days are growing longer And sight of early green Tells of the coming spring and suns grow ...
STILL in thy streets, O Paris! doth the stainOf blood defy the cleansing autumn rain;Still breaks the smoke Messina's ruins ...
As my mind in fancy wanders,While we figure on Life's stage,While in queries deep we ponder,O'er the past years ripe ...
BEFORE him rolls the dark, relentless ocean;Behind him stretch the cold and barren sands;Wrapt in the mantle of his deep ...
Dochter Peggy sat on the kiln, An' watch'd owre her faither's life,For he had been at Both'ell brig, An' joined in the ...
I said that I would see Her once, to curse her fair, deceitful grace,To curse her for my life-long agony; But when ...
WHEN first thou go'st to court a maid,If thou'dst succeed, implore God's aid,And take his Spirit for thy guide,Or thou'lt ...
Swarthy wastelands, wide and woodless, glittering miles and miles away,Where the south wind seldom wanders and the winters will not ...
In dreams on a far-off shore I lay(Dreams that were full of dread),Where the purple clouds of a dying dayShadowed ...
They sunk a post into the ground Where their leaders bade them stop;It was a man's height, and they spiked A crosspiece ...
Whether I loved you who shall say?Whether I drifted down your wayIn the endless River of Chance and Change,And you ...
Always suddenly they are gone-- The friends we trusted and held secure-- Suddenly we are gazing on, Not a _smiling_ face, but the ...
I.Ye must not die--your cheek is red,Ye have not lost your bloom;We shall be loth when ye are deadTo lay ...
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