Ode To a Young Lady (John Logan Poems)
Maria, bright with beauty's glow,In conscious gayety you goThe pride of all the park:Attracted groups in silence gazeAnd soft behind ...
Maria, bright with beauty's glow,In conscious gayety you goThe pride of all the park:Attracted groups in silence gazeAnd soft behind ...
April, pride of woodland ways,Of glad days,April, bringing hope of prime,To the young flowers that beneathTheir bud sheathAre guarded in ...
The water, see it, leaps from the mountain's high brow, Like a roll of smooth silver, and laughingly nowSee, it skips, ...
Once on a Time, in Sunshine Weather,Falshood and Truth walk'd out together,The neighbouring Woods and Lawns to view,As Opposites will ...
In a small chamber, friendless and unseen, Toiled o'er his types one poor, unlearned young man;The place was dark, unfurnitured, and ...
They hadn't met for fifty years, or was it fifty-one ?They'd parted when their ship arrived their separate ways to ...
Saturday morning in late March.I was alone and took a long walk,though I also carried a bookof the Alone, which ...
You kin talk erbout yo' 'lasses an' yo' steamin' buckwheat cakes,'Bout yo' eisters fried in crackers, an' yo' juicy hot ...
Oh! tell me ye shepherds, tell me I pray,Have you seen the fair Jessie pass by this way?You ne'er could ...
When with a skilful hand Prometheus madeA statue that the human form displayed,Pandora, his own work, to wed he chose,And ...
To Thomas Pennant, Esquire.... equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illisIngenium.Virg., Georg.When day declining sheds a milder gleam,What time the may-fly ...
If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song,May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear,Like thy own solemn springs,Thy ...
NOW from before Aurora's rays,Stern darkness with its horror flies;The mountain tops begin to blaze,And Phoebus gilds the eastern skies.See ...
THE earth is damp: in everythingI taste the bitter breath of pallid spring.Hark! In the air a fanning sound,Like distant ...
YOUNG William once the blithest of the swains,That grac'd the flow'ry bank, or trode the plains;Not rustic, but from affectation ...
Seest thou, how tearful and alone, And drooping like a wounded dove,The Cross in sight, but Jesus gone, The widowed Church is ...
Over the river, and through the wood,To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way, To carry the sleigh,Through the white ...
A NOTELESS stream, the Birchbrook runsBeneath its leaning trees;That low, soft ripple is its own,That dull roar is the sea's.Of ...
TIS a dull sight To see the year dying,When winter winds Set the yellow wood sighing: Sighing, O sighing!When such a time cometh I ...
On the Bank of a River so deep,Whose Waters glide silently on,Sad Rosalind sat down to weep,For Damon her Lover ...
PERMIT a dull muse, my dear Charlotte, to say,The season approaches when Brook Green looks gay;Or in other terms, my ...
She dwelt on the hillside by edgeof a maize-field, near the spring thatflows in laughing rills through thesolemn shadows of ...
Over the mossy walls,Above the slumbering fieldsWhere yet the ground no fruitage yields,Save as the sunlight fallsIn dreams of harvest-yellow,What ...
Not till the freezing blast is still,Till freely leaps the sparkling rill,And gales sweep soft from summer skies,As o'er a ...
The evening twilight gently dies;The air is cool; the silent nightSerenely reigns; the curtain'd skiesTo contemplation's shrine invite;The labours of ...
I am weary, Mother, and I fain would restBeside thee, in the cold and silent tomb-The rayless pathways of a ...
HAVE you ever been down to my countree Where the trees are green and tall? The days are long and the heavens ...
Winter is come again. The sweet south west Is a forgotten wind, and the strong earth Has laid aside its mantle to ...
BY THE PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF DEAD AND LIVE LANGUAGESPHI BETA KAPPA.--CAMBRIDGE, 1867You bid me sing,--can I forgetThe classic ode of ...
Silence is the voice of mighty things.In silence dropped the acorn in the rain;In silence slept till sun-touched. Wondrous lifePeeped ...
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