Epigram On Hearing Of The Burning Of Moscow

"O all ye Sons of Taste! with raptured sight     Behold this image of the God of light;     Admire its whole, admire its every part;     'Tis sc"

"(Supposed To Be Written By Miss B***, His Sister.)     At God's command the vital spirit fled,     And thou, my Brother! slumber'st with the"

"The piece, to-night, is of peculiar kind,     For which the appropriate name is hard to find;     No Comedy, 'tis clear; nor can it be,     Wit"

"Mortal! whoe'er thou art, that passest by,     Stop, and behold this stone with heedful eye!     Here lies a Youth, whom Death's resistless powe"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"