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The Poems

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore: What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer friend, the flatt'ring foe; By vain prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed. Wisdom in sable garb array'd, Immersed in rapt'rous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend: Warm Charity, the gen'ral friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleas- ing tear. Oh ! gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chast'ning hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Not circled with the vengeful band, (As by the impious thou art seen, ) With thund'ring voice and threat'ning mien, With screaming Horror's fun'ral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty: Thy form benign, O goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart. Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound, my heart. The gen'rous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know my. self a Man. THE PROGRESS OF POESY. A Pindaric Ode. Ae To Tiiu' epfj.rfvetav Xari. Pindar. Ol. n. I. I. Awake, Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers that round them Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, sm...

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 24
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780217305341
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2012