Ode (Philip Freneau Poem)
GOD save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings so dear: Let them be spread around ...
GOD save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings so dear: Let them be spread around ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
What if this present were the world's last night? Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell, The ...
More Life -- went out -- when He went Than Ordinary Breath -- Lit with a finer Phosphor -- Requiring ...
THINK not, 'cause men flattering say You're fresh as April, sweet as May, Bright as is the morning star, That ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
(Judges, vi.25) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
IF chance some pensive stranger, hither led, His bosom glowing from majestic views, The gorgeous dome, or the proud landscape's ...
Poor restless dove, I pity thee; And when I hear thy plaintive moan, I mourn for thy captivity, And in ...
Poor restless dove, I pity thee; And when I hear thy plaintive moan, I mourn for thy captivity, And in ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Far, far away is mirth withdrawn 'Tis three long hours before the morn And I watch lonely, drearily - So ...
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 ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Think'st thou I saw thy beauteous eyes, Suffus'd in tears, implore to stay; And heard unmov'd thy plenteous sighs, Which ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
When coldness wraps this suffering clay, Ah! whither strays the immortal mind? It cannot die, it cannot stay, But leaves ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I. She should never have looked at me If she meant I should not love her! There are plenty ... ...
I. I dream of a red-rose tree. And which of its roses three Is the dearest rose to me? II. ...
The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves ...
I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night; I went to the window to see the sight; All the ...
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