A broken horseshoe 'twas, it seem'd. So to St. Peter thus He spake: "That piece of iron prythee ta...
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The babe in his cradle and swaddling-clothes lies; How blest to trust to God's protection!" Behold...
And then not one had cause for shame. 1816. ----- A PARABLE. I PICKED a rustic nosegay lately, ...
1776.* ----- THE CRITIC. I HAD a fellow as my guest, Not knowing he was such a pest, And gave h...
Where by the boldest man no path Cut before thee thou canst discern, Make for thyself a path! Sil...
1807. ----- THE WARNING. WHEN sounds the trumpet at the Judgment Day, And when forever all thing...
Thou now shalt tease him, now delight. Thus Love will nevermore grow old, Thus will the minstrel n...
In the spacious heavens above us! Would ye on this earth but give us Steadfast minds and dauntless...
In the drear void of a sad tortured breast; Now on the well-known threshold Hope hath smil'd, Hers...
Ere the net is noticed by us, Is a happier one imprison'd, Whom we, one and all, together Greet w...
'Stead of Phoebus and Aurora, To enliven my still labours!" Yet they left me in my slumbers, Dull...
Oh what a cackling, what a shrieking, When near the door she takes her stand, With her food-basket...
And with mighty godlike stroke Right and duty they inspire, And evoke, As they sing, and wake the...
To enjoy, to be glad, And thee to scorn, As I! 1773. ----- GANYMEDE. How, in the light of morn...
And a Castalian spring Runs as a fellow-brook, Runs to the idle ones, Mortal, happy ones, Apart ...