A broken horseshoe 'twas, it seem'd. So to St. Peter thus He spake: "That piece of iron prythee ta...
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Thou now shalt tease him, now delight. Thus Love will nevermore grow old, Thus will the minstrel n...
Is it thus thou, Nature, prizest Thy great masterpiece's masterpiece? Carelessly destroyest thou ...
1807. ----- THE WARNING. WHEN sounds the trumpet at the Judgment Day, And when forever all thing...
Where by the boldest man no path Cut before thee thou canst discern, Make for thyself a path! Sil...
1776.* ----- THE CRITIC. I HAD a fellow as my guest, Not knowing he was such a pest, And gave h...
And then not one had cause for shame. 1816. ----- A PARABLE. I PICKED a rustic nosegay lately, ...
In the drear void of a sad tortured breast; Now on the well-known threshold Hope hath smil'd, Hers...
The babe in his cradle and swaddling-clothes lies; How blest to trust to God's protection!" Behold...
To enjoy, to be glad, And thee to scorn, As I! 1773. ----- GANYMEDE. How, in the light of morn...
And with mighty godlike stroke Right and duty they inspire, And evoke, As they sing, and wake the...
Mingled are with joy and pain. Round the beds, so richly gleaming, Rises up a palace fair; All wi...
Oh what a cackling, what a shrieking, When near the door she takes her stand, With her food-basket...
As from the smoke is freed the blaze, So let our faith burn bright! And if they crush our golden w...
'Stead of Phoebus and Aurora, To enliven my still labours!" Yet they left me in my slumbers, Dull...