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EARTH has not anything to show more fair
2023-12-06EARTH 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...
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"A widow bird sate mourning for her Love"
2023-12-06A 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...
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Simplex Munditiis
2023-12-06STILL 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...
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A Farewell to the World
2023-12-06FALSE 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...
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To the Lady Margaret Ley
2023-12-06DAUGHTER 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...
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Elegy on Thyrza
2023-12-06AND 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...
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On the Castle of Chillon
2023-12-06ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons Liberty! thou art For there thy habitation is the heart— The heart which love of The...
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Lines to an Indian Air
2023-12-06I 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...
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I fear thy kisses gentle maiden
2023-12-06I 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...
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The Flight of Love
2023-12-06WHEN 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...