Lines
Lines PLACED OVER A CHIMNEY-PIECE Surly Winter, come not here; Bluster in thy proper sphere: Howl along the naked plain, There exert thy joyless reign; Triumph […]
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Logogriph For man’s support I came at first from earth, But man perverts the purpose of my birth; Beneath his plastic hand new forms I take, […]
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Octogenery Reflections Say, ye who through this round of eighty years Have proved its joys and sorrows, hopes and fears,— Say, what is life, ye veterans, […]
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Ode To Remorse Dread offspring of the holy light within, Offspring of Conscience and of Sin, Stern as thine awful sire, and fraught with woe From […]
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Ode To Spring SWEET daughter of a rough and stormy fire, Hoar Winter’s blooming child; delightful Spring! Whose unshorn locks with leaves And swelling buds are […]
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On A Lady’s Writing HER even lines her steady temper show; Neat as her dress, and polish’d as her brow; Strong as her judgment, easy as […]
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On A Portrait Blest art! What magic powers with thine may vie, That brings (too seldom seen) a Brother nigh? That gives, by colours into canvass […]
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On The Backwardness Of The Spring 1771 IN vain the sprightly sun renews his course, Climbs up th’ ascending signs and leads the day, While long […]
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On The Death Of Mrs. Jennings ‘TIS past: dear venerable shade, farewel! Thy blameless life thy peaceful death shall tell. Clear to the last thy setting […]
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On The Death of Mrs. Martineau, Senr. Ye who around this venerated bier In pious anguish pour the tender tear, Mourn not!—’Tis Virtue’s triumph, Nature’s doom, […]
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