#AmericanWriters
WHILE deep you mourn beneath the… The hand of Death, and your dear… laid In dust, whose absence gives your… And racks your bosom with incessan…
FROM dark abodes to fair etheria… Th’ enraptur’d innocent has wing’d… On the kind bosom of eternal love She finds unknown beatitude above. This known, ye parents, nor her lo…
WHILE others chant of gay Elysi… Of balmy zephyrs, and of flow’ry p… My song more happy speaks a greate… Feels higher motives and a nobler… For thee, O R———, the muse attune…
Through airy roads he wings his in… To purer regions of celestial ligh… Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d system… Beneath him sees the universal who… Planets on planets run their desti…
Apollo’s wrath to man the dreadful… Of ills innum’rous, tuneful goddes… Thou who did’st first th’ ideal pe… And taught’st the painter in his w… Inspire with glowing energy of tho…
O thou bright jewel in my aim I s… To comprehend thee. Thine own wor… Wisdom is higher than a fool can r… I cease to wonder, and no more att… Thine height t’explore, or fathom…
THOUGH thou did’st hear the tem… And felt’st the horrors of the wat… To me unknown, yet on this peacefu… Methinks I hear the storm tumultu… And how stern Boreas with impetuo…
SAY, muse divine, can hostile sce… The warrior’s bosom in the fields… Lo! here the christian and the her… With mutual grace to form the man… In H———D see with pleasure and su…
O’erwhelming sorrow now demands my… From death the overwhelming sorrow… What flowing tears? What hearts w… What sighs on sighs heave the fond… The brother weeps, the hapless sis…
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pa… Taught my benighted soul to unders… That there’s a God, that there’s… Once I redemption neither sought… Some view our sable race with scor…
On Death’s domain intent I fix my… Where human nature in vast ruin li… With pensive mind I search the dr… Where the great conqu’ror has his… There there the offspring of six t…
Ere yet the morn its lovely blushe… See Sewell number’d with the happ… Hail, holy man, arriv’d th’ immort… Though we shall hear thy warning v… Come, let us all behold with wishf…
WHILE raging tempests shake the… While AElus’ thunders round us ro… And sweep impetuous o’er the plain Be still, O tyrant of the main; Nor let thy brow contracted frowns…
Thy various works, imperial queen,… How bright their forms! how deck’d… Thy wond’rous acts in beauteous or… And all attest how potent is thine… From Helicon’s refulgent heights…