Robert Alves

I lived from 1745-1801. I was from Scotland, and am in the English category.

My poetry

• The Winter's Night: An Elegy

  When now each light-wing'd hour of joy is fled,
  With vernal beauty, vernal love and song;

  193 lines
• Time: An Elegy. Written Near The Ruins Of Elgin Cathedral

  PART I.
  'Twas the sober hour of closing day,

  439 lines
• Ode To Night

  To climes that doze in gloom of night,
  Lo Phoebus bends his steady rein,

  75 lines
• Ode: Being An Allusion To The Times

  Once more I fain would close a joyful year,
  But not with joy resounds my lay!

  134 lines
• Love And Wisdom: A Vision

  'Twas in the morn of youthful days,
  When Love a thousand various ways

  831 lines
• Malevolence: An Ode

  Hence, fiend, to where in caverns dun
  Thee Envy bore to wan Despair,

  103 lines
• Sonnets

  Of late I met a damsel lowly born,
  Yet trim her gait, and dainty was her air!

  47 lines
• Three Sonnets

  What grievous ills our daily patience prove!
  A prince's frown grieves him that longs for power;

  50 lines

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