Ode To Fortune (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
BLIND goddess, whose capricious swayThe thoughtless race of man obey,Whose transient smiles they court;How hapless must thy vot'ries be,Who, lur'd ...
BLIND goddess, whose capricious swayThe thoughtless race of man obey,Whose transient smiles they court;How hapless must thy vot'ries be,Who, lur'd ...
All that pass by, To Jesus draw near,He utters a cry, Ye sinners, give ear!From hell to retrieve you He ...
THOU, Winter, with protracted sway,Dost still thy lingering flight delay,Still 'neath thy veil of snow,The charms of Nature lie conceal'd,To ...
"Who tamed your lawless Tartar blood? What David bearded in her den The Russian bear in ages when You strode ...
O WISDOM! if thy soft controulCan sooth the sickness of the soul,Can bid the warring passions cease,And breathe the balm ...
Jehovah buried,Satan dead,do fearers worship Much and Quick;badness not being felt as bad,itself thinks goodness what is meek;obey says toc,submit ...
"The Poetical Olio, now you've read thro', Little Misstress B's at your mercy I trow: From the ladies she knows ...
I from this hillock all my world survey! Yon vale, bedecked by nature's fairy fingers, Where ...
"Dear Anna, why that falling tear, Dost weep, my love, because we part? My constancy thou need'st not fear; Thy ...
Greatest of beings! Source of life!Sovereign of air, and earth, and sea!All nature feels thy power, and allA silent homage ...
There shall be showers of blessing:This is the promise of love;There shall be seasons refreshing,Sent from the Savior above.RefrainShowers of ...
Across the places deep and dim, And places brown and bare, It reaches to the planet s rim ...
If thou hast squander'd years to grave a gem Commission'd by thy absent Lord, and while 'Tis incomplete, Others would ...
WHERE suns chase suns in rhythmic dance,Where seeds are springing from the dust,Where mind sways mind with spirit-glance,High court is ...
BEAUTIFUL, sublime, and glorious; Mild, majestic, foaming, free, —Over time itself victorious, Image of eternity!Sun and moon and ...
When the bearing and doing are over,And no more is to do or bear,God will see us and judge usThe ...
Go not far from me, O my God, Whom all my times obey;Take from me anything Thou wilt, But go ...
As to her child a mother calls,"Come to me, child; come near!"Calling, in silent intervals,The Master's voice I hear.But does ...
Come, ye weary sinners, come,All who groan beneath your load,Jesus calls his wanderers home,Hasten to your pardoning God!Come, ye guilty ...
Pallas grew vapourish once, and odd,She would not do the least right thing,Either for goddess, or for god,Nor work, nor ...
Stupefy my heart to every day's monotony, Seal up my eyes, I would not look so far, Chasten my steps ...
O King of Terrors, whose unbounded Sway All that have Life, must certainly Obey; The King, the Priest, the Prophet, ...
Great God, whom heav'n, and earth, and sea.With all their countless hosts, obey,Upheld by whom the nations stand,And empires fall ...
Melpomene among her livid people,Ere stroke of lyre, upon Thaleia looks,Warned by old contests that one museful rippleAlong those lips ...
From a Normandy crucifix of 1632I am the great sun, but you do not see me, I am your ...
I heard Old Ocean raise her voice and cry, In that still hour between the night and day; ...
WHAT happy hours of innocence and love, Hope pictures to the mind, ere time and careHer softening ecstacies her ...
Out of thy door I run to do the thingThat calls upon me. Straight the wind of wordsWhoops from mine ...
THE house, with blind unhappy face, Stands lonely in the last year's corn, And in the ...
Thou brave old Titan, that in chains didst lie, Bound to the rock on the Caucasian hill,Who by sublime endurance ...
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