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Topic |
| Linnets | Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock. |
| Luxury | Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? |
| May | Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed. |
| Merriment | The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall. |
| Modesty | He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. |
| Nobility | Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating. |
| General Proverbs | Scroundrel maxim. |
| Rain | The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world. |
| Repentance | Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang Shoots through the conscious heart. |
| Robins | The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man His annual visit. |
| Rooks | Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds, And ceaseless caws amusive. |
| Sculpture | So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. |
| Sky | Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine. |
| Slander | Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name. |
| Storms | At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The Lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The Noise astounds; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts, And opens wider; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated Roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal, Crush'd, horrible, convulsing Heaven and Earth. |
| Swallows | When autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play The swallow-people; and toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feather'd eddy floats; rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire. |
| Swallows | The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house. |
| Swans | The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle, Protective of his young. |
| Thames River | Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt In Twit'nham bowers, and for their Pope implore. |
| Voice | He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song. |
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