Scroundrel maxim.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas,
That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,
At once the wonder, terror, and delight
Of distant nations; whose remotest shore
Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm;
Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults
Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd
The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:
And some, with whom compared your insect-tribes
Are but the beings of a summer's day,
Have held the Scale of Empire, ruled the Storm
Of mighty War; then, with victorious hand,
Disdaining little delicacies, seized
The Plough, and, greatly independent, scorned
All the vile stores corruption can bestow.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift,
To that of life and an immortal soul!More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And heightens ease with grace.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Her polish'd limbs,
Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire;
Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd the most.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge,
The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,
A moving radiance twinkles.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe:
With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,
Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,
And for their falsehood each despising each.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

While I deduce,
From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,
The symphony of spring.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise of health.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,
Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,
Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The glad circle round them yield their souls
To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat
An honest name.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

When autumn scatters his departing gleams,
Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play
The swallow-people; and toss'd wide around,
O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift,
The feather'd eddy floats; rejoicing once,
Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The swallow sweeps
The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Up springs the lark,
Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;
Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings
Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts
Calls up the tuneful nations.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Linnets . . . sit
On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods,
Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,
In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves
His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man
His annual visit.More James 1 [03/29/2018 05:03:36]