It was the winter wild, While the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in awe to Him Had doffed her ...

Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace...

This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heav'n's Eternal King, Of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, ...

In this monody the author bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and by occa...

This is the companion piece to Milton's "Il Penseroso". Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...

This is the companion piece to Milton's "L'Allegro". Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without fathe...

Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse, Wed your divine sounds, and mixed ...

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Und...