Riddles By Dr. Swift And His Friends (Jonathan Swift Poems)
FROM Venus born, thy beauty shows;But who thy father, no man knows:Nor can the skilful herald traceThe founder of thy ...
FROM Venus born, thy beauty shows;But who thy father, no man knows:Nor can the skilful herald traceThe founder of thy ...
It is well that beauteous woman Has the quickest sense of wrong;That the tenderest traits of feeling To her faithful heart belong;That ...
WELCOME home again, brave seaman! with thy thoughtful brow and gray,And the old heroic spirit of our earlier, better day;With ...
It is not blasphemy to hope that HeavenMore perfectly will give those nameless joysWhich throb within the pulses of the ...
COME, sportive Fancy ! Come with me, and traceThe POET'S Attic home ! The lofty seatOf th' Heaven-tutor'd Nine ! ...
E. S.Once a lively image of human nature, Such as God made itWhen he pronounced every work of his to be ...
Awake dull soul, and from thy fold of clayReceive the blessed tidings of the day:Not of a fox's cub, whose ...
This Earth the king saidLooking at the ground;This England. But we driveA Sunday paradiseOf parkway, trees flow into trees and ...
Yet once more, and once more, awake, my Harp,From silence and neglect—one lofty strain;Lofty, yet wilder than the winds of ...
What means this vast assemblage here,Of people great ...
FOR THELOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE.WHAT tongue can half my woes express?What force of eloquence can tell?The causes of ...
Author of health, who all the plants that growHast form'd! who hast the tyrant Death subdu'd!Thy blessing on this medicine ...
Self discipline and perseverance strong,Effort on effort, with endurance long,Make kings of men, who subjugate and swayStern empire over self ...
From Alton Bay to Sandwich Dome,From Mad to Saco river,For patriarchs of the primal woodWe sought with vain endeavor.And then ...
Lying in bed this morning, just a yearSince our first days, I was trying to assess --Against my natural caution ...
MY boy, do you know the boy I love?I fancy I see him now;His forehead bare in the sweet spring ...
THE sun is on the crowded street,It kindles those old towers;Where England's noblest memories meet,Of old historic hours.Vast, shadowy, dark, ...
He will not sleep: by Moscow's lurid glareOf fiery columns darting to the skies-By her sad widows' wail and orphans ...
Lying in bed this morning, just a yearSince our first days, I was trying to assess -Against my natural caution ...
OH Death! insatiate archer! why on mePour forth thy vengeance with a shaft so keen?Why was no other victim mark'd ...
Roughest roads, we often find, Lead us on to th' nicest places;Kindest hearts oft hide behind Some o'th' plainest-lukkin faces.Flaars whose colors ...
FORESEEN in the vision of sages, Foretold when martyrs bled, She was born of the longing of ages, By the truth of the ...
Oh! from the deeds well done, the blood well shedIn a good cause springs up to crown the landWith ever-during ...
Written For The Dedication Of The Michigan Street Baptist Church, BuffaloAlmighty God! in this thy house, For the first time thy ...
From that warm height and pure, The peak undreamed of out of heavy air Rising to heaven more strange and rare;From that ...
THE worst of tortures fate can findTo lacerate the feeling mind,And rob the soul of rest,Is, when its adverse laws ...
The sea is calm to-night.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;—on the French coast the lightGleams and ...
Vain is his affectation respecting the end of his turban;For in the time of his manhood his condition is changed.The ...
1Cloven, we are incorporate, our woundssimple but mysterious. We havesome wherewithal to bide our time on earth.Endurance is fantastic; ambulancesbattling ...
NOBLE be man,Helpful and good!For that aloneDistinguisheth himFrom all the beingsUnto us known.Hail to the beings,Unknown and glorious,Whom we forebode!From ...
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