The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801-11, Volume 6F.C. & J. Rivington, 1811 - English poetry |
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... O'er the full board a brighter lustre beams Than Persia's monarch at his feasts commands ; For sweet refreshment all inviting seems To taste celestial food , and pure ambrosial streams . XVII . But when meek eve hung out her dewy star ...
... O'er the full board a brighter lustre beams Than Persia's monarch at his feasts commands ; For sweet refreshment all inviting seems To taste celestial food , and pure ambrosial streams . XVII . But when meek eve hung out her dewy star ...
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... o'er thy head , To catch poetic gold . W Whate'er the cynic may pretend , Money , a means , but not an end , Is happiness below . Oh ! for a mine of gold to give , To live , and to make others live , And clear the world of woe . 1 To ...
... o'er thy head , To catch poetic gold . W Whate'er the cynic may pretend , Money , a means , but not an end , Is happiness below . Oh ! for a mine of gold to give , To live , and to make others live , And clear the world of woe . 1 To ...
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... o'er , There still is one spot unsecur'd , where the dart Of Anguish may enter , and pierce to the core . No prayer do I breathe that thy idoliz'd gold May be rent from thy grasp ; ' twere the prayer of a friend ; For if such a loss ...
... o'er , There still is one spot unsecur'd , where the dart Of Anguish may enter , and pierce to the core . No prayer do I breathe that thy idoliz'd gold May be rent from thy grasp ; ' twere the prayer of a friend ; For if such a loss ...
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... O'er his dark poison broods the vengeful snake , And alligators haunt the reedy lake . But worse than these , and ah more dreadful far , The native Indian wages barb'rous war ; Inur'd to hardships , famine , floods and fire , No dangers ...
... O'er his dark poison broods the vengeful snake , And alligators haunt the reedy lake . But worse than these , and ah more dreadful far , The native Indian wages barb'rous war ; Inur'd to hardships , famine , floods and fire , No dangers ...
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... o'er my griefs an exile doom'd to sigh , No prospect brightens to my joyless eye ! The hapless land that gave these griefs to flow Affords no friend to soothe a stranger's woe . Perhaps , some breast that pants with Freedom's flame ...
... o'er my griefs an exile doom'd to sigh , No prospect brightens to my joyless eye ! The hapless land that gave these griefs to flow Affords no friend to soothe a stranger's woe . Perhaps , some breast that pants with Freedom's flame ...
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Page 525 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 212 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 397 - COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball and the Grasshopper's feast ; The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you.
Page 397 - See the children of earth, and the tenants of air, For an evening's amusement together repair. And there came the Beetle, so blind and so black, Who carried the Emmet, his friend, on his back; And there was the Gnat, and the Dragon-fly too, With all their relations, green, orange, and blue.
Page 305 - He, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning: And He, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but prose run mad: All these, my modest Satire bade translate, And own'd that nine such Poets made a Tate.
Page 9 - Through halls high domed, enriched with sculptured pride. While gay saloons appeared on either side, In splendid vista opening to her sight ; And all with precious gems so beautified, And furnished with such exquisite delight, That scarce the beams of heaven emit such lustre bright.
Page 398 - Snail, with his horns peeping out from his shell, Came from a great distance — the length of an ell. A mushroom their table, and on it was laid A water-dock leaf, which a table-cloth made ; The viands were various, to each of their taste, And the Bee brought his honey to crown the repast. There, close on his haunches, so solemn and wise, The Frog from a corner looked up to the skies ; And the Squirrel, well pleased such diversion to see, Sat cracking his nuts overhead in a tree.
Page 217 - All perishable ! like the electric fire, But strike the frame, and as they strike expire, Incense too pure a bodied flame to bear, Its fragrance charms the sense and blends with air.
Page 216 - Phoebus darts his ray, Diffusive splendour gilds his votary's lay. Whether the song heroic woes rehearse, With epic grandeur, and the pomp of verse ; Or, fondly gay, with unambitious guile, Attempt no prize but favouring beauty's smile ; Or bear dejected to the lonely grove The soft despair of unpre vailing love — Whate'er the theme, through every age and clime Congenial passions meet th' according rime ; The pride of glory — pity's sigh sincere — Youth's earliest blush — and beauty's virgin...
Page 327 - Tis, alas ! the truth we tell. Virgins, much, too much presuming On your boasted white and red, View us, late in beauty blooming, Number