if ever two were onethen surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me,ye women,if you can. I...
Farewell, dear babe, my heart's too much content, Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye, Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent, T...
CAPTAIN or Colonel or Knight in Arms Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize If deed of honour did thee ever please Guard them and him withi...
VENGE O Lord! Thy slaughter'd saints whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept Thy truth so pure of old When ...
THIS is the month and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born Our great redemption from...
IT was the Winter wilde While the Heav'n-born-childe All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim W...
ONE word is too often profaned For me to profane it One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope is too like despair For pru...
MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery Or the mariner worn and wan Never thus could voyage on Day and night and night and day ...
THE sun is warm the sky is clear The waves are dancing fast and bright Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent might: Th...
MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty...