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Of late two dainties were before me plac'dSweet, holy, pure, sacred and innocent,From the ninth sphere to me benignly sentThat Gods might know my own..

1.Spirit here that reignest!Spirit here that painest!Spirit here that burneth!Spirit here that mourneth!Spirit! I bowMy forehead low,Enshaded with..

O that a week could be an age, and weFelt parting and warm meeting every week,Then one poor year a thousand years would be,The flush of welcome ever..

This mortal body of a thousand daysNow fills, O Burns, a space in thine own room,Where thou didst dream alone on budded bays,Happy and thoughtless of..

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to viewA fate more pleasing, a..

As Hermes once took to his feathers light,When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,So on a Delphic reed, my idle sprightSo played, so charmed..

Upon a Sabbath-day it fell;Twice holy was the Sabbath-bellThat call'd the folk to evening prayer;The city streets were clean and fairFrom wholesome..

Riddle: A certain number has three digits. The sum of the three digits equals 36 times this number. Seven times the left digit plus 9 is equal to 5..

Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loudUpon the top of Nevis, blind in mist!I look into the chasms, and a shroudVapourous doth hide them, -- just..

Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and thereAmong the bushes half leafless, and dry;The stars look very cold about the sky,And I have many miles..

Riddle: My first is a part of the day, My last a conductor of light, My whole to take measure of time, Is useful by day and by night. What am..

Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye.Not like the formal crest of latter days:But bending in a thousand..

O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind,Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mistAnd the black elm tops 'mong the freezing stars,To thee..

Nature withheld Cassandra in the skiesFor more adornment a full thousand years;She took their cream of Beauty's fairest dyes,And shap'd and tinted..

Good Kosciusko, thy great name aloneIs a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;It comes upon us like the glorious pealingOf the wide spheres -- an..

This pleasant tale is like a little copse:The honied lines do freshly interlace,To keep the reader in so sweet a place,So that he here and there full..

I.He is to weet a melancholy carle:Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hair,As hath the seeded thistle when in parleIt holds the Zephyr, ere it..

O GOLDEN tongued Romance, with serene lute!Fair plumed Syren, Queen of far-away!Leave melodizing on this wintry day,Shut up thine olden pages, and be..

Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals,And their faint cracklings o'er our silence creepLike whispers of the household gods that keepA..

Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning;He slants his neck beneath the waters brightSo..

Who loves to peer up at the morning sun,With half-shut eyes and comfortable cheek,Let him with this sweet tale full often seekFor meadows where the..

In after-time, a sage of mickle loreYclep'd Typographus, the Giant took,And did refit his limbs as heretofore,And made him read in many a learned..

Happy is England! I could be contentTo see no other verdure than its own;To feel no other breezes than are blownThrough its tall woods with high..

Come hither all sweet Maidens soberlyDown looking aye, and with a chasten'd lightHid in the fringes of your eyelids white,And meekly let your fair..

Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine,A forester deep in thy midmost trees,Did last eve ask my promise to refineSome English that might strive thine..