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He, who could view the book of des… And read whatever there was writ o… O charming youth, in the first ope… So many graces in so green an age, Such wit, such modesty, such stren…
In that wild deluge where the worl… When life and sin one common tomb… The first small prospect of a risi… With various notes of joy the ark… Yet when that flood in its own dep…
Thee, Sovereign God, our grateful… We own thee Lord, and bless thy w… To thee, Eternal Father, earth’s… With loudest trumpets sounds immor… Lord God of Hosts! for thee the h…
Ask not the cause why sullen Spri… So long delays her flowers to bear… Why warbling birds forget to sing, And winter storms invert the year: Chloris is gone; and fate provides
Auspicious poet, wert thou not my… How could I envy, what I must com… But since ’tis nature’s law, in lo… That youth should reign, and withe… With less regret those laurels I…
After the pangs of a desperate lov… When day and night I have sighed… Ah, what a pleasure it is to disco… In her eyes pity, who causes my pa… When with unkindness our love at a…
A parish-priest was of the pilgrim… An awful, reverend, and religious… His eyes diffused a venerable grac… And charity itself was in his face… Rich was his soul, though his atti…
Of all the cities in Romanian lan… The chief and most renowned Raven… Adorned in ancient times with arms… And rich inhabitants with generous… But Theodore the brave, above the…
While Norman Tancred in Salerno… The title of a gracious Prince he… Till turned a tyrant in his latter… He lost the lustre of his former p… And from the bright meridian where…
The unhappy man, who once has trai… Lives not to please himself, but o… Is always drudging, wastes his lif… Yet only eats and drinks what you… What praise soe’er the poetry dese…
Why should a foolish marriage vow, Which long ago was made, Oblige us to each other now When passion is decay’d? We lov’d, and we lov’d, as long as…
In times when princes cancelled na… And declarations which themselves… When children used their parents t… And gnaw their way, like vipers, t… Tarquin, a savage, proud, ambitiou…
Enter JANUS JANUS Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace, An hundred times the rolling sun Around the radiant belt has run
Farewell, too little and too latel… Whom I began to think and call my… For sure our souls were near allie… Cast in the same poetic mould with… One common note on either lyre did…
NO, no, poor suff’ring Heart, no… Choose to sustain the smart, rathe… My ravish’d eyes behold such charm… I can die with her, but not live w… One tender Sigh of hers to see me…