#AmericanWriters
INDULGENT muse! my grov’ling m… And fill my bosom with celestial f… See from Jamaica’s fervid shore s… Like the fair mother of the bloomi… When from above the Goddess with…
WHILE raging tempests shake the… While AElus’ thunders round us ro… And sweep impetuous o’er the plain Be still, O tyrant of the main; Nor let thy brow contracted frowns…
We trace the pow’r of Death from… And his are all the ages yet to co… 'Tis his to call the planets from… To blacken Phoebus, and dissolve… His too, when all in his dark real…
WHO taught thee conflict with the… To vanquish satan in the fields of… Who strung thy feeble arms with mi… How great thy conquest, and how br… War with each princedom, throne, a…
HAIL, happy saint, on thine immo… Possest of glory, life, and bliss… We hear no more the music of thy t… Thy wonted auditories cease to thr… Thy sermons in unequall’d accents…
Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur’… To praise the monarch of the earth… Whose goodness and benificence app… As round its centre moves the roll… Or when the morning glows with ros…
Apollo’s wrath to man the dreadful… Of ills innum’rous, tuneful goddes… Thou who did’st first th’ ideal pe… And taught’st the painter in his w… Inspire with glowing energy of tho…
ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour’… Assist my labours, and my strains… In smoothest numbers pour the note… For bright Aurora now demands my… Aurora hail, and all the thousand…
TO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep… And thought in living characters t… When first thy pencil did those be… And breathing figures learnt from… How did those prospects give my so…
THROUGH thickest glooms look ba… On that confusion which thy death… Or from Olympus’ height look down… A Town involv’d in grief bereft o… Thy Lucy sees thee mingle with th…
Celestial choir! enthron’d in real… Columbia’s scenes of glorious toil… While freedom’s cause her anxious… She flashes dreadful in refulgent… See mother earth her offspring’s f…
Hail, happy day, when, smiling lik… Fair Freedom rose New—England to… The northern clime beneath her gen… Dartmouth, congratulates thy bliss… Elate with hope her race no longer…
On Death’s domain intent I fix my… Where human nature in vast ruin li… With pensive mind I search the dr… Where the great conqu’ror has his… There there the offspring of six t…
ALL—Conquering Death! by thy res… Hope’s tow’ring plumage falls to r… Of scenes terrestrial how the glor… Forget their splendors, and submit… Who ere escap’d thee, but the sain…
WHERE contemplation finds her sa… Where heav’nly music makes the arc… Where virtue reigns unsully’d and… Where wisdom thron’d, and all the… There sits thy spouse amidst the r…