EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a ga...
A WIDOW bird sate mourning for her Love Upon a wintry bough; The frozen wind crept on above The freezing stream below. There was no leaf upon the fore...
STILL to be neat still to be drest As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd still perfumed: Lady it is to be presumed Though art's h...
FALSE world good night! since thou hast brought That hour upon my morn of age; Henceforth I quit thee from my thought My part is ended on thy stage. Y...
DAUGHTER to that good Earl once President Of England's Council and her Treasury Who lived in both unstain'd with gold or fee And left them bot...
AND thou art dead as young and fair As aught of mortal birth; And form so soft and charms so rare Too soon return'd to Earth! Though Earth receive...
ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons Liberty! thou art For there thy habitation is the heart— The heart which love of The...
I ARISE from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night When the winds are breathing low And the stars are shining bright— I arise from dr...
I FEAR thy kisses gentle maiden; Thou needest not fear mine; My spirit is too deeply laden Ever to burthen thine. I fear thy mien thy tones thy motion...
WHEN the lamp is shatter'd The light in the dust lies dead— When the cloud is scatter'd The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute i...