Category: Poetry
Expect not, gentle readers, here to find Some wild romance,—effusion of a mind Imbued with pictures, which dark fancies give;— My Heroine, like yourselves doth act and live. No scenes of terror here you’ll see portrayed, To shock the feelings of a timid maid. No scowling wretc...
Expect not, gentle readers, here to find Some wild romance,—effusion of a mind Imbued with pictures, which dark fancies give;— My Heroine, like yourselves doth act and live. No...
2. Part 2O! who that viewed so bright a scene Could guess that sorrow here had been; That any through the dance who glide, In splendour decked, elate with pride, Had seen hopes changed f...
3. Part 3He dreamed not she could e’er withstand His thousand merits; well he scanned Her thousand acres—the rent-roll Of her papa quite charmed his soul: ’Twas very monstrous that her s...
4. Part 4Who on this brilliant scene had dwelt, And paused to think, but must have felt As Xerxes, when he wept to see } That mighty, moving throng, whom he } Had marshalled on to destin...