To Eliza On Her Marriage (Hector MacNeill Poems)
You're now, Eliza, fix'd for life;In other words, you're now -- a wife;And let me whisper in your ear,A wife, ...
You're now, Eliza, fix'd for life;In other words, you're now -- a wife;And let me whisper in your ear,A wife, ...
Shun! dress! shoulder a'ms!Fours right! Forward! March!That was how they kept us at it;Heads up stiff as starch.We were Virginia ...
It was a queer October place-- No house, you'd say, at all! A wide brown wood with leaves for a floor, And timbers ...
A band of Arab brigands having taken up their position on the top ofa mountain and closed the passage of ...
XXVI'Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won,Be glorious acts, and full of glorious praise,By Heaven's mere grace, not by our prowess done:Those ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
We sat beneath tall waving trees that flung Their heavy shadows o'er the dewy grass. Over the waters, breaking at our feet, Quivered ...
But yet creation's neither crammed nor blockedAbout by body: there's in things a void-Which to have known will serve thee ...
But yet creation's neither crammed nor blockedAbout by body: there's in things a void-Which to have known will serve thee ...
If any Philosophers have written of these Subjects, as Imake no question, or doubt, but they have, of all thatNature ...
So, this is all, - the utmost reachOf priestly power the mind to fetter!When laymen think, when women preach,A war ...
When Scaliger, whole years of labour past,Beheld his lexicon complete at lastAnd weary of his task, with wond'ring eyes,Saw, from ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed,Long before lunch was up,That I might drain the dizzy dewFrom the day's first golden cup.In ...
When wise Minerva still was young And just the least romantic,Soon after from Jove's head she flung That preternatural antic,'Tis said, to ...
In days of old the King of Saxe Had singular opinions, For with a weighty battle-axe He brutalized his minions, And, when he'd nothing ...
Dust and smoke against the sunrise out where grim disaster lurksAnd a broken sky-line looming like unfinished railway works,And a ...
In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in ...
Era.m cosselhatz, senhor,vos c'avetz saber e sen:una domna.m det s'amor,c'ai amada lonjamen;mas eras sai de vertatqu'ilh a autr'amic privat,ni anc ...
He fell, a slave of tinsel-honour,A sacrifice to slander's lust;The haughty Poet's head, the noblest,Bowed on his wounded breast in ...
I very little knew your husband, Madam;He was large and ugly, I did not know more.But we are not annoyed, ...
Mr. MacCall at Cleveland Hall,Sunday evening-date to fix-Fifteenth April, sixty-six,Speech reported and redactedBy a fellow much distracted.IWho lectures? No mere ...
If father, if mother, if daughter, if son,If houses, if lands, if the wife of thy love —Shou'd strive to ...
This world's made up ov leet an shade, But some things strange aw mark;One class live all on th' sunny side, Wol ...
When a Negro comes in question you may watch the Southern press,See how bias its opinions, how his ills are ...
And what do you eat in the mess there compounded? For roast beef, the gravy the soap-man should claim-- The soup some ...
With different colour glows each ray That joins to feed the solar day. Yet, each commingling as they pass, They lose distinction in ...
Pain and labor of oppression gave the Western world its birth,From such shores the love of freedom ne'er should perish ...
Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife,Yet Marry'd worse unto the Peoples strife:He who by two Divorces did untieHis Bond ...
"Awst nivver be jaylus, net aw!" Sed Nancy to th' love ov her heart,"Aw couldn't, lad, if awd to try, For aw ...
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