XIV: Ode: To Sir William Sydney, On His Birth-day (Ben Jonson Poems)
Now that the harth is crown'd with smiling fire, And some do drink, and some do dance, Some ring, ...
Now that the harth is crown'd with smiling fire, And some do drink, and some do dance, Some ring, ...
Old tales of valour fire our bloodBut this, the bravest deed I knowIs written of our modern times,No myth of ...
Air — "The County Meeting."Ye'er welcome, leddies, ane and a',Ye'er welcome to our County Ha';Sae weel ye look when buskit ...
Ballad of the Caucasus.Aischa was mine,My tender cousin,My blond lover;And you knew our love,Uncle without bowels,Foul old man.For a few ...
Women ben full of Ragerie,Yet swinken not sans secresie.Thilke Moral shall ye understond,From Schoole-boy's Tale of fayre Irelond:Which to the ...
A grand man is the prince of Loo, With person large and high. Lofty his front and suited to ...
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, He, the handsome Yenadizze, Whom the people called the Storm-Fool, Vexed the village with disturbance; ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
The Baker's Tale They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress-- They ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The angel of self-discipline, her guardian Since she first knew and had to go away From home that spring to ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
You ladies of merry England Who have been to kiss the Duchess's hand, Pray, did you not lately observe in ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
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