The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter (Matthew Prior Poems)
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scaredThe gentle sleep that round my senses clung,And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,And ...
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
IKing of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the ...
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)Was played a wily trick, and nicely ...
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
[It is stated that a shepherd, who had for many years grazed his flocks ina district in which a rich ...
From pain and peril, by land and main,The shipwrecked sailor came back again;And like one from the dead, the threshold ...
This is an obvious imitation of Walt Whitman, is it?Well, and wouldn't that be better than another in sickly rime?Perhaps ...
Blessings on the blessing children, sweetest gifts of Heaven to earth,Filling all the heart with gladness, filling all the house ...
THEY who say the bush is dull are not so very far astray,For this eucalyptic cloisterdom is anything but gay;But ...
I CHANCED to stray along the barren hillsThat stretch from Botany Bay to Sydney CoveOne cloudy morn. Full many a ...
In SENSIBILITY'S lov'd praise I tune my trembling reed,And seek to deck her shrine with bays, On which my heart must bleed!No ...
Good Dan and Jane were man and wife,And lived a loving kind of life.One point, however, they disputedAnd each by ...
The music's done. Be quiet, Mr. Durie!Your bell and whistle put me in a fury!Don't ring up yet, sir--I've a word ...
I'm a lamiter, Girzie, or I wad hae beenAt the feast o' the mutches hauden yestreenIn the big City Ha'—the ...
My dearest Love! when thou and I must part,And th' icy hand of death shall seize that heartWhich is all ...
As shadows are to material forms, As mists to the copious shower As dead calms are to tornado storms That in tropical region ...
What should the wars do with these jigging fools?The man behind the book may not be man,His own man or ...
On Afric's wide Plains, where the Lion now roaring,With Freedom stalks forth, the vast Desert exploring,I was dragg'd from my ...
Oyez, my good people draw near, My story surpasses belief,Yet deign for a moment to hear,And assist me to catch a ...
Come friends and fellow soldiers brave, Come listen to our song;About the rebel prisons, and Our sojourn there so long.Our wretched state ...
Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'dTo unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind:When tired with following nature, you think ...
I'D rather live in Bohemia than in any other land;For only there are the values true,And the laurels gathered in ...
MR. AND MRS. I.G. BLISS.Why, dear friends, oh! tell us whereforeYou're so anxious to be gone;Is the country late adoptedDearer ...
I was the patriarch of the shining land,Of the blond summer and metallic grain;Men vanished at the motion of my ...
Virginius, the Roman Father, With beating heart, though brave,Beheld his fair Virginia doomed, To be a tyrant's slave.Despair had gather'd on his ...
Beloved, to whose wedded hand I trust This treasure of sweet song, it is but meet That thou shouldst know its value; ...
There may be standard weight for precious metal,But deeper meaning it must ever hold;Thank God, there are some things no ...
I was not, at first, aware, that thou art so utterly inconstant-Thou makest a hundred vows a day, and still ...
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