To such a terrible nation, which hurries along like a tempest! For they summon together the young a...
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----- WARNING. WAKEN not Amor from sleep! The beauteous urchin still slumbers; Go, and complete t...
For what is Useful alone remains the first thought of his lifetime. Happy the man to whom Nature a ...
ART thou, then, vex'd at my silence? What shall I speak of? Thou markest Neither my sorrowful sigh,...
In the spacious heavens above us! Would ye on this earth but give us Steadfast minds and dauntless...
A broken horseshoe 'twas, it seem'd. So to St. Peter thus He spake: "That piece of iron prythee ta...
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...