Mary Darby Robinson's Poetry, by popularity

• The Camp

  Tents, marquees, and baggage waggons;
  Suttling-houses, beer in flagons;

  47 lines
• Stanzas Written under an Oak in Windsor Forest

  "HERE POPE FIRST SUNG!" O, hallow'd Tree !
  Such is the boast thy bark displays;

  78 lines
• Ode to Valour

  [Inscribed to Colonel Banastre Tarleton]
  

  101 lines
• Sonnet XLIV: Here Droops the Muse

  Here droops the muse! while from her glowing mind,
  Celestial Sympathy, with humid eye,

  14 lines
• Stanzas to the Rose

  SWEET PICTURE of Life's chequer'd hour!
  Ah, wherefore droop thy blushing head?

  30 lines
• Sonnet XXXI: Far O'er the Waves

  Far o'er the waves my lofty Bark shall glide,
  Love's frequent sighs the flutt'ring sails shall swell,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXVII: When, in the Gloomy Mansion

  When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead,
  This with'ring heart, this faded form shall sleep;

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXIV: O Thou! Meek Orb

  O thou! meek Orb! that stealing o'er the dale
  Cheer'st with thy modest beams the noon of night!

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXIV: Venus! To Thee

  Venus! to thee, the Lesbian Muse shall sing,
  The song, which Myttellenian youths admir'd,

  14 lines
• Ode to the Muse

  O, let me seize thy pen sublime
  That paints, in melting dulcet rhyme,

  134 lines
• Ode to Meditation

  SWEET CHILD OF REASON! maid serene;
  With folded arms, and pensive mien,

  106 lines
• Sonnet -- The Mariner

  THE SEA-BEAT MARINER, whose watchful eye
  Full many a boist'rous night hath wak'd to weep;

  14 lines
• Sonnet XL: On the Low Margin

  On the low margin of a murm'ring stream,
  As rapt in meditation's arms I lay;

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• Sonnet XLIII: While From the Dizzy Precipice

  While from the dizzy precipice I gaze,
  The world receding from my pensive eyes,

  14 lines
• Rinaldo to Laura Maria

  THOU! whose sublime poetic art
  Can pierce the pulses of the heart,

  86 lines
• Sonnet to Amicus

  WHOE'ER thou art, whose soul-enchanting song
  Steals on the sullen ear of pensive woe;

  14 lines
• Sonnet -- The Peasant

  WIDE o'er the barren plain the bleak wind flies,
  Sweeps the high mountain's top, and with its breath

  14 lines
• Sonnet IV: Why, When I Gaze

  Why, when I gaze on Phaon's beauteous eyes,
  Why does each thought in wild disorder stray?

  14 lines
• Sonnet XI: O! Reason!

  O! Reason! vaunted Sovreign of the mind!
  Thou pompous vision with a sounding name!

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXII: Blest As the Gods

  Blest as the Gods! Sicilian Maid is he,
  The youth whose soul thy yielding graces charm;

  14 lines
• The Confessor, a Sanctified Tale

  When SUPERSTITION rul'd the land
  And Priestcraft shackled Reason,

  114 lines
• Ode to Della Crusca

  ENLIGHTEN'D Patron of the sacred Lyre?
  Whose ever-varying, ever-witching song

  78 lines
• The Faded Bouquet

  FAIR was this blushing ROSE of May,
  And fresh it hail'd morn's breezy hour,

  48 lines
• Sonnet to My Beloved Daughter

  WHEN FATE in ruthless rage assail'd my breast,
  And Heaven relentless seal'd the harsh decree;

  14 lines
• Sonnet -- The Snow-Drop

  THOU meekest emblem of the infant year,
  Why droops so cold and wan thy fragrant head ?

  14 lines
• Sir Raymond of the Castle

  [The following little Poems are written after the Model of the Old English Ballads, and are inscribed to those who admire the simplicity of that kind of versifi

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• Sonnet XXVII: Oh! Ye Bright Stars

  Oh! ye bright Stars! that on the Ebon fields
  Of Heav'n's empire, trembling seems to stand;

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXVIII: Oh Sigh

  Oh Sigh! thou steal'st, the herald of the breast,
  The lover's fears, the lover's pangs to tell;

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXIX: Prepare Your Wreaths

  Prepare your wreaths, Aonian maids divine,
  To strew the tranquil bed where I shall sleep;

  14 lines
• The Poor Singing Dame

  Beneath an old wall, that went round an old Castle,
  For many a year, with brown ivy o'erspread;

  64 lines

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