Festus – XXXV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Our first, our last, by heavenly fates impelled;We again meet; warned by the Spirit progressive, learn,Not man's design, mere compromise ...
Our first, our last, by heavenly fates impelled;We again meet; warned by the Spirit progressive, learn,Not man's design, mere compromise ...
ON thy carved sides, where many a vivid dyeIn easy progress leads the wandering eye,A distant nation's manners we behold,To ...
SWEET scene, on me full often hast thou smil'd,And for a while my pressing cares beguil'd;In thee have I spent ...
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
FLAVIA.The wretched FLAVIA on her couch reclin'd, Thus breath'd the anguish of a wounded mind ; A glass revers'd in her right ...
To Thomas HardyIOff the long headland, threshed about by round-backed breakers,There is a black rock, standing high at the full ...
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clearmy head about this poem about why I can'tgo out ...
THOU, that dost guard thy people, and protect!Thou castle of defence, the weak to keep!For Jesu's sake, do not my ...
LXXXVI'But if our sins us of his help deprive,Of his high justice let no mercy fall;Yet should our deaths us ...
ADDRESSEDTO MY NEPHEWATHANASE C. L. COQUEREL,ON HIS WEDDING DAY, 1819.CHILD of my heart! while others hailThis festive morn, when joys ...
For heaven's sake, my Sammy dear!In mind, till death, those precepts bear :Christ on thy bended knees adore,When in my ...
HAPPY Britannia, favour'd Isle! Fate on thee delights to smile; Even amid the woes of war, Thund'ring dreadful from afar; Let no discordant voice ...
In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd,Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of prideIn one short hour ...
Poor, little bird! the chase is ended;No longer hast thou cause for fear;Within these walls thou art befriended;No sportsmen can ...
See! rob'd in new beauties, young May cheers the lawn! Ye virgins! how charming her air!Haste! cull her fresh flow'rets dew-dropping ...
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.His daughter fair Leola ...
I know not how, I know not where,But from my own heart's mystic loreI feel that I have breathed this ...
Alone I strode where the broad Rhine flowed, The hedge with roses was covered, And wondrous rare through all the air The scent ...
Whilst on thy Golden Locks I gaze,And what I like sincerely praise,Coldly you turn your Head away,And tax with Flattery ...
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.He used to ...
Hail foes to oppression, and lovers of freedom!Your day has arrived, and your power you know:-This host of timeservers, I'm ...
The seas has made a wall for its defenceof falling water. Those whose impertinenceleads them to its moving ledgesit rejects. ...
SHE was just risen from her bended knee,But yet peace seem'd not with her piety;For there was paleness upon her ...
I'M thinking, Charles, 't is just a year,Or will be, very soon,Since first you told me of your love,One glorious ...
From Heaven's Gate to Hampstead Heath Young Bacchus and his crewCame tumbling down, and o'er the town Their bursting trumpets blew.The silver ...
I"See," said the artist, while with languid careHe posed before his goddess, "how sublimeThe primitive invention was, how bareOf inessentials! ...
Restless Time, who ne'er abidestDriver, who life's chariot guides!O'er dark hills and vales that smile 'Let me, let me breathe ...
I read your testimony and I thoughthere is the man perfected that I knewand reverenced next him who gave me ...
Shut out the World, shut in the Home!The sea is deeper than its foam;Retain the gem, reject the paste;Withdraw from ...
Evil-eyed loiterer, pilgrim of fashion, Sunless and hard is thy frost-bitten heart;Scoffing at nature's affection and passion, Till thou hast made the ...
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