Love Poems – Page 3433
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An old maid early eer I knew
* * * / An old maid early eer I knew / Ought but the love that on me grew … -
Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve
You never heard tell of the story? / Well, now, I can hardly believe! / Never heard of the honour and glory … -
On a Columnar Self —
On a Columnar Self — / How ample to rely / In Tumult — or Extremity — … -
On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage
TIME was when I was free as air, / The thistle's downy seed my fare, / My drink the morning dew; … -
On a great coxcomb
(recovering from an Indisposition) / Narcissus (as Ovid informs us) expir'd, / Consum'd by the flames his own beauty had fir'd; … -
On A Lady, Coquetting With A Very Silly Fellow.
CORINNA'S judgment do not less admire, / That she for Oulus shows a gen'rous fire; / Lucretia toying thus had been a fool, … -
On a Picture (Botta 01)
When Summer o'er her native hills / A veil of beauty spread, / She sat and watched her gentle fold, … -
On a Picture (Botta 02)
Why bends she o'er that glittering toy / With such an earnest gaze, / As if those flashing jewels cast … -
On a picture of Harvey Birch
I know not if thy noble worth / My country's annals claim, / For in her brief, bright history … -
On a picture of my father
I strive in vain those features to restore / To Memory's faded tablets, which on me, / From the mute ivory, beam so lovingly, …
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