Poems on Various Subjects - 2 Author:John Taylor Title: Poems on Various Subjects: Miscellaneous Effusions. Imitations. Tales. Elegiacs and Epitaphs. Addenda. the Odes of Anacreon, With Fragments of Sappho and Alcaeus Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Original Publisher: Payne and Foss Subjects: English poetry Notes: This is a black and white ... more »OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Then, Erin, hail! with zeal prepare A gracious Monarch's smile to share, Receive with all thy wonted fire A loyal people's patriot Sire ; So may the shamrock, thistle, rose, While each in lasting vigour grows, Prove symbols of a world's repose. ADDRESS TO THE COMMITTEE FOR THE PROPOSED MONUMENTS TO SHAKSPEARE, AT STHATFOHD-UPON-AVON, AND IN THE METROPOLIS. Hail to that bard, o'er all sublime, Whose works shall scorn the pow'r of time, When others live no more! Nature preferr'd that happy isle, To bless with her prolific smile, Where freedom arms the shore. Thee, Albion, for our Shakspeare's birth, O'er all the wide expanse of earth, She chose to guard his fame; Lest Superstition's bigot rage, Should strive to crush the moral stage, Beneath religion's name. For still, alas ! has she design'd To hold in manacles the mind, As direful hist'ry tells ! Still decm'd that sh That man was made hi Ami when ho think- Ilence she might i| luit tnueh'd our IV tier still tin t Mu .1 around 11 pi Tt Noughi For e'en i And kinu . " The p. In corporal sub As when a giant i ? but certain rage, e wond'rous page, s envious sway, 3 beauties so abound, in earth's vast round, i orb of day. ird, whom all revere, thou deign'st to hear, votive band ise, with patriot aim, al of thy fame, native land. sHAKSPEAR...« less