Submission (William Cowper Poem)
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of Frost, through the absence of objects ...
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
And what is Life? An hour-glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated ...
Sweet Love and I had oft communed; We were, indeed, great friends, And oft I sought his office, near Where ...
I am standing under the mistletoe, And I smile, but no answering smile replies For her haughty glance bids me ...
Cupid on a summer day, Wearied by unceasing play, In a rose heart sleeping lay, While, to guard the tricksy ...
This boy, of course, was dead, whatever that might mean. And nobly dead. I think we should feel he was ...
A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or ...
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears ...
A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
SOME have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow. ...
When weary with the long day's care, And earthly change from pain to pain, And lost and ready to despair, ...
For moveless limbs no pity I crave, That never were swift! Still all I prize, Laughter and thought and friends, ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
Oh! did those eyes, instead of fire, With bright, but mild affection shine: Though they might kindle less desire, Love, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine, And health and youth possessed me; My goblets blushed from every vine, And ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
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