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When the Assault Was Intended to the City
2023-12-06CAPTAIN or Colonel or Knight in Arms Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize If deed of honour did thee ever please Guard them and him withi...
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Farewell, dear babe, my heart's too much content, Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye, Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent, T...
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To My Dear and Loving Husband
2023-12-06if ever two were onethen surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me,ye women,if you can. I...
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
2023-12-06Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My l...
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On Being Brought from Africa to America
2023-12-06'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God,that there's a Saviour too: Once I re...
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"There be none of Beauty's daughters"
2023-12-06THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me: When as if its sound were causi...
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"She walks in beauty like the night"
2023-12-06SHE walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyes; T...
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To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
2023-12-06Grim monarch! see,depriv'd of vital breath, A young physician in the dust of death: Dost thou go on incessant to destroy, Our griefs to double,and...
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Pressed by the moon,mute arbitress of tides, While the loud equinox its power combines, The sea no more the swelling surge confines, But o'er the ...
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Love's Secret
2023-12-06NEVER seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently invisibly. I told my love I told my love I told her al...