A Song To David (Christopher Smart Poems)
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
The Rector met a little lass Who led a heifer by a rope. Said he: "Why don't you go to ...
Addict of Punch and Judy shows I was when I was small; My kiddy laughter, I suppose, Rang louder than ...
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven ...
Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven ...
Give me your hand, oh little one! Like children be we two; Yet I am old, my day is done ...
He asked the lady in the train If he might smoke: she smiled consent. So lighting his cigar and fain ...
O meadow lark, so wild and free, It cannot be, it cannot be, That men to merchandise your spell Do ...
FOR these are sacred fishes all Who know that lord that is the lord of all; Come to the brim ...
FLOWER god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
SWEET blushing Nymph, who loves to dwell In the dark forest's silent gloom; Who smiles within ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
(ALCAICS) Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable; And yet she smiled. Why, then, ...
Because he puts the compromising chart Of hell before your eyes, you are afraid; Because he counts the price that ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
Two brothers, Oakes and Oliver, Two gentle men as ever were, Would roam no longer, but abide In Linndale, where ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
WHEN FATE in ruthless rage assail'd my breast, And Heaven relentless seal'd the harsh decree; HOPE, placid soother of the ...
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
I. How happy he, who free from care The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breaths his native ...
Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre, Where kindly mingling Souls a while, Let's innocently spend an houre, And at all ...
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys ...
Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence Got an antipathy to wit and sence, And hug'd that fate, in hope ...
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his ...
The day you died I went into the dirt, Into the lightless hibernaculum Where bees, striped black and gold, sleep ...
This, no song of an ingénue, This, no ballad of innocence; This, the rhyme of a lady who Followed ever ...
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