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  • 'TIS the last rose of Summer,
    Left blooming alone;
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime
    Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.
    18 lines
  • "A temple to Friendship," said Laura, enchanted,
    "I'll build in this garden,--the thought is divine!"
    16 lines
  • Night closed around the conqueror's way,
    And lightnings show'd the distant hill,
    16 lines
  • My banks are all furnished with rags,
    So thick, even Freddy can't thin 'em;
    48 lines
  • Alone in crowds to wander on,
    And feel that all the charm is gone
    24 lines
  • I've oft been told by learned friars,
    That wishing and the crime are one,
    8 lines
  • How can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all
    The Peers of realm about cheapening their corn,
    40 lines
  • Come with me, and we will blow
    Lots of bubbles, as we go;
    47 lines
  • And doth not a meeting like this make amends
    For all the long years I've been wandering away --
    40 lines
  • As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow
    While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below,
    12 lines
  • As slow our ship her foamy track
    Against the wind was cleaving,
    32 lines
  • As vanquish'd Erin wept beside
    The Boyne's ill-fated river,
    24 lines
  • At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly
    To the lone vale we loved, when life shone warm in thine eye;
    10 lines
  • Avenging and bright fall the swift sword of Erin
    On him who the brave sons of Usna betray'd! --
    16 lines
  • By the hope within us springing,
    Herald of to-morrow's strife;
    28 lines
  • Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
    Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • By that Lake, whose gloomy shore
    Sky-lark never warbles o'er,
    40 lines, 2 comments
  • Come o'er the sea,
    Maiden with me,
    28 lines
  • Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer,
    Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here;
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief
    To simpleton sages and reasoning fools;
    16 lines
  • "What! still those two infernal questions,
    That with our meals our slumbers mix --
    40 lines
  • Said Cotton to Corn, t'other day,
    As they met and exchang'd salute--
    32 lines
  • Dear Harp of my Country! in darkness I found thee,
    The cold chain of Silence had hung o'er thee long.
    16 lines
  • By the Feal's wave benighted,
    No star in the skies,
    32 lines
  • Said a Sov'reign to a Note,
    In the pocket of my coat,
    41 lines
  • 'Twas a new feeling - something more
    Than we had dared to own before,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Drink of this cup; -- you'll find there's a spell in
    Its every drop 'gainst the ills of mortality;
    36 lines
  • Drink to her who long
    Hath waked the poet's sigh,
    36 lines
  • How sweet the answer Echo makes
    To music at night,
    15 lines, 1 comment
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