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- SOON as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain;18 lines - ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,
Assist my labours, and my strains refine;20 lines - We trace the pow'r of Death from tomb to tomb,
And his are all the ages yet to come.31 lines - While others chant of gay Elysian scenes,
Of balmy zephyrs, and of flow'ry plains,32 lines - THY various works, imperial queen, we see,
How bright their forms! how deck'd with pomp55 lines, 1 comment - Hail, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,
Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn:43 lines - MNEME begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine,
Your vent'rous Afric in her great design.51 lines - To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent,
And thought in living characters to paint,34 lines - FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light
Th' enraptur'd innocent has wing'd her flight;37 lines - Say, heav'nly muse, what king or mighty God,
That moves sublime from Idumea's road?30 lines - Thro' thickest glooms look back, immortal shade,
On that confusion which thy death has made:28 lines - Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar,
And felt'st the horrors of the wat'ry war,32 lines - O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive
To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare21 lines - No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rife,
Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes,42 lines - 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand8 lines, 7 comments - On Death's domain intent I fix my eyes,
Where human nature in vast ruin lies,34 lines, 1 comment - Where contemplation finds her sacred spring,
Where heav'nly music makes the arches ring,43 lines - Maecenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade,
Read o'er what poets sung, and shepherds play'd.55 lines, 1 comment - Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight
The warrior's bosom in the fields of fight?10 lines - While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write,
The muses promise to assist my pen;30 lines, 1 comment - Indulgent muse! my grov'ling mind inspire,
And fill my bosom with celestial fire.34 lines - Your subjects hope, dread Sire--
The crown upon your brows may flourish long,15 lines - O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song:
From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung.30 lines - Hail, happy saint, on thine immortal throne,
To thee complaints of grievance are unknown;49 lines - To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind
Habitual grace, and sentiments refin'd,28 lines - Who taught thee conflict with the pow'rs of night,
To vanquish satan in the fields of light?24 lines - While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade
The hand of Death, and your dear daughter laid40 lines - Grim monarch! see, depriv'd of vital breath,
A young physician in the dust of death:34 lines - All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,
Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!45 lines - Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise
To praise the monarch of the earth and skies,131 lines - The poet asks, and Phillis can't refuse
To show th' obedience of the Infant muse.20 lines
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