Poems about tott (21 Poems)
Peter Prime’s Principles (John Hartley Poems)
“Sup up thi gill, owd Peter Prime, Tha’st have a pint wi’ me;It’s worth a bob at onny time To have a chat wi’ thee.Aw like to see thi snowy hair, An cheeks like apples ripe,–Come squat thi daan i’th’ easy cheer, Draw up, … Continue reading
Th’ Better Part (John Hartley Poems)
A poor owd man wi’ tott’ring gait,Wi’ body bent, an snowy pate, Aw met one day;–An daan o’th’ rooad side grassy banksHe sat to rest his weary shanks;An aw, to while away mi time,O’th’ neighbourin hillock did recline, An bade “gooid day.” … Continue reading
On Seeing The Captives, Lately Redeem’d From Barbary By His Majesty. (Mary Barber Poems)
A sight like this, who can unmov’d survey?Impartial Muse, can’st thou with–hold thy Lay?See the freed Captives hail their native Shore,And tread the Land of Liberty once more:See, as they pass, the crouding People press,Joy in their Joy, and their … Continue reading
The Almighty Conqueror. (Mather Byles Poems)
I.Awake my Heart, awake my Tongue,Sound each melodious String;In num’rous Verse and lofty Song,To thee, my GOD, I sing. II.Omnipotent Redeemer-Lord,What Wonders hast thou done!My flowing Numbers shall record,The Vict’ries thou hast won. III.I glow in Raptures all divine,As with … Continue reading
The Miser (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
MISER ! why countest thou thy treasure,Thy ill-got hoards of paltry gold ?–Feel’st thou a throb of secret pleasure,When Conscience whispers, soft and low,“These are the spoils which from oppression flow“For which thy fame is sold !”Why dost thou doat … Continue reading
Epilogue To A Comedy Acted At Bath, (Mary Barber Poems)
Ladies, this Entertainment we have shown,Has not been rightly suited, I must own.Heroic Virtue should have been display’d,And Homage to heroic Virtue paid.Low Comedy supplies but mean Delight;Some Heroine should have grac’d our Scenes Tonight,First Fortune’s Favours, then her Frowns … Continue reading
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq; ——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. Horace Preface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in this Essay he has retained some few of the old Words of Spenser, and adopted the Simplicity of … Continue reading
A Poem on Elijahs’Tran (Benjamin Colman Poems)
Coelo Musa beat.Hor. Carm. Lib. 4. Od. 8.—Nec meus audetRem tentare pudor, quam Vires serre recusent.Hor. Ep. 1. Lib. 2. I sing the MAN, by Heav’ns peculiar Grace,The Prince of Prophets, of the Chosen Race,Rais’d and Accomplisht for degenerate Times,To … Continue reading
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
You have obey’d, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer’s righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor sought, as heretofore, with Friendly Aid Only, new Motion to bestow Upon the sluggish Vapours, bred below, Condensing into Mists, … Continue reading
Retrospect; (Charles Tompson Poems)
Or,A Review of my Scholastic Days “O, Festus Dies Hominis!”-O, the Joyful Day of Man!Why, (when the hours of school-day bliss are o’er,And puerile pleasures charm the mind no more,When childhood shrinks before youth’s riper day,Like morning dews by sunbeams … Continue reading