When e'er his flocks the lovely shepherd drove
To neighb'ring waters, to the neighb'ring grove;
To Jordan's flood refresh'd by cooling wind,
Or Cedron's brook to mossy banks confin'd,
In easy notes and guise of lowly swain,
'Twas thus he charm'd and taught the listning train.

To A Lady, On Being Asked My Reasons For Quitting England In The Spring

© George Gordon Byron

When Man, expell'd from Eden's bowers,
A moment linger'd near the gate,
Each scene recall'd the vanish'd hours,
And bade him curse his future fate.

Geraldine

© Henry Kendall

I think we lived a loftier life through hours of Long Ago,
For in the largened evening earth our spirits seemed to grow.
Well, that has passed, and here I stand, upon a lonely place,
While Night is stealing round the land, like Time across my face;
But I can calmly recollect our shadowy parting scene,
And swooning thoughts that had no voice no utterance, Geraldine.

Tale XV

© George Crabbe

transgress'd,
And while the anger kindled in his breast,
The pain must be endured that could not be

The Tombs Of The Kings

© Mathilde Blind

Where the mummied Kings of Egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold,

Couched for ages in their coffins, crowned with crowns of dusky gold,

The Abduction

Some things I do not profess

to understand, perhaps

The Columbiad: Book I

© Joel Barlow

Ah, lend thy friendly shroud to veil my sight,
That these pain'd eyes may dread no more the light;
These welcome shades shall close my instant doom,
And this drear mansion moulder to a tornb.

To Quintus Hirpinus

© Eugene Field

To Scythian and Cantabrian plots,
Pay them no heed, O Quintius!
So long as we
From care are free,
Vexations cannot cinch us.

Bribed

I know that what I did was wrong;

I should have sent you far away.

In Memoriam A. H. H.: 105.

Let cares that petty shadows cast,
By which our lives are chiefly proved,
A little spare the night I loved,
And hold it solemn to the past.

Over how many tracts, vast, measureless,
Ages on ages roll, and none appear
Save the wild hunter ranging for his prey;
While on this spot of earth, the work of man,