
On The Wreck Of The Halsewell By Henry James Pye
On The Wreck Of The Halsewell A FRAGMENT. Now the loud winds with angry pinions sweep The laboring bosom of the stormy …
On The Wreck Of The Halsewell A FRAGMENT. Now the loud winds with angry pinions sweep The laboring bosom of the stormy …
Alfred. Book V. ARGUMENT. Episode of Ceolph and Emmeline—March of the Army.—Battle of Eddington. ‘Mid Selwood’s sylvan walks, with martial care, The …
The Fourth Olympic Ode Of Pindar STROPHE. Great Jove! supreme immortal King! Borne on the unwearied thunder’s wing; Again thy hours that …
Epitaph On Charles D’aussey, Esquire IN HOLY-ROOD CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON. When Pomp, when Wealth, when Greatness sink to dust, Though Vanity adorn the …
The War-Elegies Of Tyrtæus, Imitated; Elegy Iv. On him shall fame, shall endless glory wait, Him future ages crown with just applause, …
Sonnet I, Written At Cliefden Spring Majestic Thames, whose ample current flows, The wood reflecting in its silver tide, Which, hanging from …
Elegy I O Happiness! thou wish of every mind, Whose form, more subtle than the fleeting air, Leaves all thy votaries wandering …
The Progress Of Refinement. Part Ii. As when stern Winter’s desolating power, Arm’d with the piercing frost, and sleety shower, O’er shivering …
Ode To Harmony I. Immortal Harmony! thy heavenly strain Coeval grew with sea, and earth, and skies.— What time from chaos’ rude …
Aerophorion When bold Ambition tempts the ingenuous mind To leave the beaten paths of life behind, Sublime on Glory’s pinions to arise, …
The Last Elegy Of The Third Book Of Tibullus Propitious Bacchus come—so round thy brow Be with the mystic vine the ivy …
Epitaph On A Child Cruel the pang to hear the struggling sigh, Watch o’er the faded cheek and closing eye; See infant …
The War-Elegies Of Tyrtæus, Imitated; Elegy Iii. But ye are Britons—are the sons of those, Of that unconquer’d race, whose arms of …
Song; The Flowers Of The Spring That Enamel The Vale The flowers of the Spring that enamel the vale, Give their dyes …
Dedication Sent With The Second Edition Of The Poem To His Majesty The King Of Prussia Imperial Bard! if while my humble …
The Progress Of Refinement. Part I. As when the stream by casual fountains fed First gushes from the cavern’s mossy bed, Dashing …
Ode To Beauty I. Enchanting power! whose influence blest O’er Nature reigns with pleasing sway, Whose mild command each gentler breast Enraptur’d …
A Fragment Of Simonides Danaë, with her infant Son Perseus, was exposed in a Vessel to the fury of the waves, by …
The Eighth Olympic Ode Of Pindar STROPHE I. Olympia! Mother of heroic Games! Queen of true Prophecy! beneath whose grove While the …
Epigram. Omnia Vincit Amor. O Love, though Virgil’s lays ascribe Resistless power to thee, Yet still I thought the happy tribe Of …
The War-Elegies Of Tyrtæus, Imitated; Elegy Ii. How long in sloth’s inglorious fetters bound Slumber the brave?—The soft enchantment break. Britons to …
Song; Let No Shepherd Sing To Me Let no Shepherd sing to me The stupid praise of Constancy, Nature bids her subjects …
Carmen Seculare For The Year 1800 I. Incessant down the stream of Time And days, and years, and ages, roll, Speeding through …
The Parsonage Improved Where gentle Deva’s lucid waters glide In slow meanders thro’ the winding vale, And fertile Cestria’s pastures green divide; …
Ode On The Divine Omnipresence A College Exercise I. O sacred Muse! thy aid impart, To rapture wake the sounding lyre! And …
A Greek Scolion, Or Song By CALLISTRATUS, On HARMODIUS and ARISTOGEITON In myrtle wreaths my sword I bear, As, fir’d by zeal, …
The Art Of War. Book Vi. Thus has Victoria taught me to impart The rigid precepts of her glorious Art. We’ve trac’d …
Elegy Vii Now has bright Sol fulfilled his circling course, Again to Taurus rolled his burning car, Since, cruel Prudence, thy resistlefs …
The War-Elegies Of Tyrtæus, Imitated; Elegy I. Not mine to sing the racer’s rapid flight, Or the athletic wrestler’s sinewy force, Not …
Song; Fair Delia While Each Sighing Swain Fair Delia while each sighing swain Whose heart your charms adores, Fills with his tender …
Beauty. Part Iii. Ye pleasing visions, and fantastic dreams, Of hallow’d mountains, of poetic streams, And shades for ever sacred to the …
The Ninth Olympic Ode Of Pindar STROPHE I. The Lay Archilochus prepar’d, the meed Of every Victor on Olympia’s sand, Might have …
Ode On The Birth Of The Prince Of Wales I. 1 . The fading beam of parting day Forsakes the western sky, …
Written On A Lady’s Fan In ancient times when like La Mancha’s Knight The adventurous Hero sallied forth to fight, Some sage …
The Fading Gleam Of Parting Day I. 1. The fading gleam of parting day Forsakes the western sky, Now shines Diana’s chaster …
Elegy Vi Now has bright Sol fulfill’d his circling course, Again to Taurus roll’d his burning car, Since, cruel Prudence, thy resistless …
The Vine Like clustering tents upon the embattled mead, See Vitis thick her small pavilions spread. Beneath each silken veil, with studious …
Shooting Ye sylvan muses! as my step invades The deep recesses of your hallow’d shades, Say will ye bid your echoing caves …
Beauty. Part I. A POETICAL ESSAY. The various powers by Nature’s hand combin’d To fill with harmony the raptur’d mind; Whose forms, …
The Myrtle And The Bramble A FABLE. Luxuriant with perennial green A Myrtle young and lovely stood, Sole beauty of the wintry …
October And May ADDRESSED TO SAMUEL JAMES ARNOLD, Esq. : ‘Behold, with mild and matron mien, ‘With sober eye, and brow serene, …
Written In The Year 1779, When The Combined When the keen axe remorseless laid The woods of Edgecombe low, Lest now their …
The Art Of War. Book Iv. When Vice triumphant rul’d the iron age, And Justice left her seat to savage rage, ‘Gainst …
Elegy V Thee, sad Melpomene, I once again Invoke, nor ask the idly plaintive verse: Quit the light reed for sorrow’s sober …
The Triumph Of Fashion A Vision In that bless’d season, when descending snows, In robes of virgin white, the fields inclose; When …
Sent To Mr. Haley, On Reading His Epistles On Epic Poetry What blooming garlands shall the Muses twine, What verdant laurels weave, …
Beauty. Part Ii Of all that Nature’s rural prospects yield, The chrystal fountain and the flow’ry field, Enough, my Muse!—the force of …
Naucratia; Or Naval Dominion. Part Iii. Awhile let War his bloody banners fold, And smiling Peace her gentler triumphs hold. The generous …
Written In A Seat At Stoke Park, Not with more joy from the loud tempest’s roar, The dangerous billow, and more dangerous …
The Art Of War. Book Iii. Your footsteps now the arsenals have trod Where lie the treasures of the warrior God; Yet …
Elegy Viii WRITTEN AT MINSTED IN THE NEW FOREST O rising Sun! on this auspicious day With brighter beams gild every hill …
The Thirteenth Olympic Ode Of Pindar STROPHE I. Whilst I rehearse the illustrious House’s Praise, Thrice Victor in Olympia’s sportive war, To …
Sent To Dr. Hayes, With The Ode To Harmony As Man’s dull form inert and silent lay, A senseless heap of unenliven’d …
Amusement A POETICAL ESSAY. By gay Amusement’s soul-subduing power To chear the mournful or the vacant hour, In fancy’s freakful gambols to …
Lenore, A Tale LENÓRE wakes from dreams of dread At the rosy dawn of day, ‘Art thou false, or art thou dead? …
Verses Sent To The Corps Of Wantage When loud Invasion with infuriate roar, With boastful threatening shakes Britannia’s shore; Should Alfred turn …
The Art Of War. Book I. Illustrious Prince mark’d out by partial Fate To bear the burthen, and the pomp of state, …
Elegy Ix AVON. WRITTEN DURING THE STRATFORD JUBILEE. From the clear stream that o’er her grotto flows The silver-slipper’d Avon slowly rose, …
The Tenth Olympic Ode Of Pindar STROPHE I. O Muse, awake the Olympic Lay, Which to Archestratus’ brave Son we owe; The …
Prologue, Intended For The cause with learn’d investigation fraught, Behold at length to this tribunal brought, No fraud your penetrating eyes can …