An Unanswerable Apology For The Rich. (Mary Barber Poems)
All--bounteous Heav'n, Castalio cries,With bended Knees, and lifted Eyes,When shall I have the Pow'r to bless,And raise up Merit in ...
All--bounteous Heav'n, Castalio cries,With bended Knees, and lifted Eyes,When shall I have the Pow'r to bless,And raise up Merit in ...
False one! You have oft profess'd,I alone could make you blest;Wherefore then am I despis'd?Wherefore is my Rival priz'd?Why, he's ...
Your late kind Gift let me restore;For I must never wear it more.My Mother cries, ``What's here to do?``A Crimson ...
Stuck upon the School Walls in OXFORD.If Fame says true, on this auspicious MornA Beggar, Coward, and a Fool was ...
God gave us Cloaths to hide our Nakedness,And we by them, do it expose to View.Our Pride, and unclean Minds, ...
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse, Of Friends unkind, and empty Purse: Plagues worse than fill'd ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD The Disincantation.ARGUMENT. Crispulus hic, nulli Nugarum Laude secundus, Cui Mens Lucis inops, Stulta Ruina Dom?s; ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
In Fanscomb Barn (who knows not Fanscomb Barn?) Seated between the sides of rising Hills, Whose airy Tops o'erlook the ...
Nathan received his Orders from above,To go to David and his Crime reprove;Attend great King! to what I shall unfold,And ...
To the tune of Fond BoyNow as fame does report, a young duke keeps a court,One that pleases his fancy ...
BEHOLD the sod where the tir'd pilgrim rests,Death, sole proprietor, his sceptre rears,And reigns triumphant o'er the conquer'd dust.Silent and ...
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task,Her ...
For meat, drink, cloaths, house, servants, and the rest,Which chiefly are the body's interest,Take this prescription: you may safely useSuch ...
O thou, who with the world had'st birth,Who rul'st despotic o'er the earth,To whom its life each creature yields;Man, bird, ...
THAT ne'er-to-be-forgotten dayYou came to see my cottage,My honest Mate adores you since,With fervor next to dotage.He said, you could ...
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task, ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
The Farmer's Goose, who in the Stubble, Has fed without Restraint, or Trouble; Grown fat with Corn and Sitting still, ...
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