Resignation Pt 1 (Edward Young Poems)
The days how few, how short the yearsOf man's too rapid race!Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,A shorter in its ...
Poems about addison (22 Poems)
On the Prospect of Peace (Thomas Tickell Poems)
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
The British General (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Churchill is dead! and in that Word is lostThe bravest Leader of the bravest Host;A veteran Chief, that in the ...
Taste: An Epistle To A Young Critic (John Armstrong Poems)
Range from Tower--hill all London to the Fleet,Thence round the Temple, t'utmost Grosvenor--street:Take in your route both Gray's and Lincoln's ...
Pygmaeo-gera (James Beattie Poems)
From the Latin of Addison.The pygmy-people, and the feather'd train,Mingling in mortal combat on the plain,I sing. Ye Muses, favour ...
Pygmaeo-gerano-machia: The Battle Of The Pygmies and Cranes (James Beattie Poems)
From the Latin of Addison.The pygmy-people, and the feather'd train,Mingling in mortal combat on the plain,I sing. Ye Muses, favour ...
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison (Thomas Tickell Poems)
If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd,And left her debt to Addison unpaid;Blame not her silence, Warwick, but ...
Upon The Death Of, Mr. Addison; Inscrib’d To The Earl Of Warwick (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
If yet, my Lord, your Sorrows find relief,And a short Pause succeeds your weighty Grief;With Candour this unwelcome Verse peruse,The ...
Oxford (Lionel Pigot Johnson Poems)
To Arthur Galton OVER, the four long years! And now there rings One voice of freedom and regret: Farewell! Now old remembrance sorrows, ...
Metamorphoses: Book The Fourteenth (Ovid Poems)
NOW Glaucus, with a lover's haste, bounds o'erThe swelling waves, and seeks the Latian shore.Messena, Rhegium, and the barren coastOf ...
On the Death of Adrienne Lecouvreur, A Celebrated Actress (Voltaire Poems)
Hat sight of woe thus harrows up my soul!Must those love-darting eyes in anguish roll?Shall ghastly death such charms divine ...
Given To A Lady Who Asked Me To Write A Poem (Janet Little Poems)
IN royal Anna's golden days,Hard was the task to gain the bays:Hard was it then the hill to climb;Some broke ...
Upon Seeing A Raffle For Addison’s Works Unfill’d (Mary Barber Poems)
Ye gentle Beaux, and thoughtless Belles,Who gaily rove at Tunbridge--Wells,With Pockets full; and empty Looks,Raffling for ev'ry Toy--but Books:Should Addison's ...
The Dunciad: Book II. (Alexander Pope Poems)
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
The Wish (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
On The Pleasures Of College Life (George Moses Horton Poems)
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
Ralph Isham, 1753 And Later (Eli Siegel Poems)
Know you him, O, him, Who lived in those days? He wore a gay coat, And he stepped along, jauntily, ...
Dear Old London (Eugene Field Poems)
When I was broke in London in the fall of '89, I chanced to spy in Oxford Street this tantalizing ...
Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad on the New Ovid’s Metamorphosi (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ye Lords and Commons, Men of Wit, And Pleasure about Town; Read this ere you translate one BitOf Books of ...
To Her Husband On His Birth-Day (Frances Addison Poems)
Again returns the grateful morn,On which my Addison was born;With joy I celebrate this day,And bless the happy Third of ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...