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Samuel Rogers's Poetry, by title

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  • A Character
    As thro' the hedge-row shade the violet steals,
    And the sweet air its modest leaf reveals;
    14 lines
  • A Farewell
    Once more, enchanting girl, adieu!
    I must be gone while yet I may,
    20 lines
  • A Wish
    Mine be a cot beside the hill,
    A bee-hive's hum shall sooth my ear;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • An Epistle To A Friend
    When, with a Reaumur's skill, thy curious mind
    Has class'd the insect-tribes of human-kind,
    221 lines
  • An Epitaph on a Robin Red-Breast
    Tread lightly here, for here, 'tis said,
    When piping winds are hushed around,
    10 lines
  • An Inscription - For Stratfield Saye
    These are the groves a grateful people gave
    For noblest service; and from age to age,
    29 lines
  • An Inscription for a Temple - Dedicated to the Graces (at Woburn-Abbey)
    Approach with reverence. There are those within,
    Whose dwelling-place is Heaven. Daughters of Jove,
    6 lines
  • An Inscription in the Crimea
    Shepherd, or Huntsman, or worn Mariner,
    Whate'er thou art, who wouldst allay thy thirst,
    13 lines
  • An Italian Song
    Dear is my little native vale,
    The ring-dove builds and murmurs there;
    18 lines
  • From a Greek Epigram
    While on the cliff with calm delight she kneels,
    And the blue vales a thousand joys recall,
    5 lines
  • From an Italian Sonnet
    Love, under Friendship's vesture white,
    Laughs, his little limbs concealing;
    8 lines
  • From Euripides
    There is a streamlet issuing from a rock.
    The village-girls singing wild madrigals,
    7 lines
  • From Eurpides II
    Dear is that valley to the murmuring bees;
    And all, who know it, come and come again.
    5 lines
  • Human Life
    The lark has sung his carol in the sky;
    The bees have hummed their noon-tide lullaby;
    828 lines, 1 comment
  • Italy : 1. The Lake Of Geneva
    Day glimmered in the east, and the white Moon
    Hung like a vapour in the cloudless sky,
    88 lines
  • Italy : 10. Como
    I love to sail along the Larian Lake
    Under the shore -- though not to visit Pliny,
    93 lines
  • Italy : 11. Bergamo
    The song was one that I had heard before,
    But where I knew not.  It inclined to sadness;
    74 lines
  • Italy : 12. Italy
    Am I in Italy?  Is this the Mincius?
    Are those the distant turrets of Verona?
    38 lines
  • Italy : 13. Coll'Alto
    "In this neglected mirror (the broad frame
    Of massy silver serves to testify
    85 lines
  • Italy : 14. Venice
    There is a glorious City in the Sea.
    The Sea is in the broad, the narrow streets,
    163 lines
  • Italy : 15. Luigi
    Happy is he who loves companionship,
    And lights on thee, Luigi.  Thee I found,
    63 lines
  • Italy : 16. St. Mark's Rest
    Over how many tracts, vast, measureless,
    Ages on ages roll, and none appear
    181 lines
  • Italy : 17. The Gondola
    Boy, call the Gondola; the sun is set.----
    It came, and we embarked; but instantly,
    94 lines
  • Italy : 18. The Brides Of Venice
    It was St. Mary's Eve, and all poured forth
    As to some grand solemnity.  The fisher
    138 lines
  • Italy : 19. Foscari
    Let us lift up the curtain, and observe
    What passes in that chamber.  Now a sigh,
    227 lines
  • Italy : 2. Meillerie
    These grey majestic cliffs that tower to heaven,
    These glimmering glades and open chestnut-groves,
    76 lines
  • Italy : 20. Marcolini
    It was midnight; the great clock had struck, and was
    still echoing through every porch and gallery in the
    54 lines
  • Italy : 21. Arquà
    Three leagues from Padua stands, and long has stood
    (The Paduan student knows it, honours it)
    61 lines
  • Italy : 22. Ginevra
    If thou shouldst ever come by choice or chance
    To Modena, where still religiously
    102 lines
  • Italy : 23. Bologna
    'Twas night; the noise and bustle of the day
    Were o'er.  The mountebank no longer wrought
    113 lines
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