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WHEN, to the attractions of the… Preferring studious leisure, I ha… A habitation in this peaceful Val… Sharp season followed of continual… In deepest winter; and, from week…
There was a time when meadow, grov… The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a d…
The minstrels played their Christ… To—night beneath my cottage—eaves; While, smitten by a lofty moon, The encircling laurels, thick with… Gave back a rich and dazzling shee…
'WHO but hails the sight with ple… When the wings of genius rise, Their ability to measure With great enterprise; But in man was ne’er such daring
IN due observance of an ancient r… The rude Biscayans, when their ch… Dead in the sinless time of infanc… Attire the peaceful corse in vestm… And, in like sign of cloudless tri…
THE FIRST volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting...
PRAISED be the Art whose subtl… Yon cloud, and fix it in that glor… Nor would permit the thin smoke to… Nor those bright sunbeams to forsa… Which stopped that band of travell…
—HAST thou then survived— Mild Offspring of infirm humanity… Meek Infant! among all forlornest… The most forlorn—one life of that… The second glory of the Heavens?—…
SAY, what is Honour?—'Tis the fi… Of 'justice’ which the human mind… Intent each lurking frailty to dis… And guard the way of life from all… Suffered or done. When lawless vi…
To barren heath, bleak moor, and q… Or depth of labyrinthine glen; Or into trackless forest set With trees, whose lofty umbrage me… World—wearied Men withdrew of yor…
Nuns fret not at their convent’s n… And hermits are contented with the… And students with their pensive ci… Maids at the wheel, the weaver at… Sit blithe and happy; bees that so…
IF Nature, for a favourite child, In thee hath tempered so her clay, That every hour thy heart runs wil… Yet never once doth go astray, Read o’er these lines; and then re…
A ROMAN Master stands on Greci… And to the people at the Isthmian… Assembled, He, by a herald’s voic… THE LIBERTY OF GREECE:—th… Until all voices in one voice are…
CHILD of loud—throated War! the… Roars in thy hearing; but thy hour… Is come, and thou art silent in th… Save when the wind sweeps by and s… Ambiguous, neither wholly thine no…
IT was a beautiful and silent day That overspread the countenance of… Then fading with unusual quietness… A day as beautiful as e’er was giv… To soothe regret, though deepening…