English Eclogues I – The Old Mansion-House (Robert Southey Poems)
STRANGER.Old friend! why you seem bent on parish duty,Breaking the highway stones,--and 'tis a taskSomewhat too hard methinks for age ...
STRANGER.Old friend! why you seem bent on parish duty,Breaking the highway stones,--and 'tis a taskSomewhat too hard methinks for age ...
Author Note: Divers Princes and Noblemen being assembled in a beautiful and fair Palace, which was situate upon the river ...
Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky The orient sun expands his roseate ray, And lovely to the ...
Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o'er distant lands ...
Faint gleams the evening radiance thro' the sky, The sober twilight dimly darkens round; In short quick circles the shrill ...
Small is the new-born plant scarce seen Amid the soft encircling green, Where yonder budding acorn rears, Just o'er the ...
(Time, Morning. Scene, the Shore.) Once more to daily toil--once more to wear The weeds of infamy--from every joy The ...
(Time Night. Scene the woods.) Where shall I turn me? whither shall I bend My weary way? thus worn with ...
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
Enter this cavern Stranger! the ascent Is long and steep and toilsome; here awhile Thou mayest repose thee, from the ...
STRANGER! the MAN OF NATURE lies not here: Enshrin'd far distant by his rival's side His relics rest, there by ...
Tho' now no more the musing ear Delights to listen to the breeze That lingers o'er the green wood shade, ...
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