George Canning View Poems

  • 1.
    I

    Whene'er with haggard eyes I view
    This dungeon that I'm rotting in,
    ...
  • 2.
    What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,
    What various duties bind his faithful train,--
    What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unites
    In fix'd observance of these holy rites,--
    ...
  • 3.
    Come, sportive Muse, with plume satiric,
    Describe each lawless, bold empiric,
    Who, with the Blue and Buffs' sad crew,
    Now stripp'd in buff, shall look so blue.
    ...
  • 4.
    Unrivall'd Greece! thou ever honor'd name,
    Thou nurse of heroes dear to deathless fame!
    Though now to worth, to honor all unknown,
    Thy lustre faded, and thy glories flown;
    ...
  • 5.
    Whene'er with haggard eyes I view
    This dungeon that I'm rotting in,
    I think of those companions true
    Who studied with me at the Uâ??
    ...
  • 6.
    From mental mists to purge a nation's eyes;
    To animate the weak, unite the wise;
    To trace the deep infection, that prevades
    The crowded town, and taints the rural shades;
    ...
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