Th’ Honest Hard Worker (John Hartley Poems)
It's hard what poor fowk mun put up wi'! What insults an snubs they've to tak!What bowin an scrapin's expected, If a ...
It's hard what poor fowk mun put up wi'! What insults an snubs they've to tak!What bowin an scrapin's expected, If a ...
What wealth of floral beauty, fresh from bright summer bowers!What exquisite commingling of lovely fragrant flowers!What budlets of rich promise, ...
0 woman, in man's hour of easeAnd plenty, how you strive to please!To win his heart - and purse - ...
LOUISATOEMMA,HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.THEE EMMA , four slow-circling years have seenPress, with thy pensive foot, Savannas green;Seen thee, with ...
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with LotIn that first war, and had his realm restoredBut rendered tributary, failed ...
Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids!Unlock ...
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
PROCRASTINATION.Love will expire--the gay, the happy dreamWill turn to scorn, indiff'rence, or esteem:Some favour'd pairs, in this exchange, are blest,Nor ...
All the comforts of life in a Tavern are known,'Tis his home who possesses not one of his own;And to ...
I am coming! I am coming! with my joyous tones of mirth.I am coming! I am coming! to gladden all ...
WHEN Emma, in my humble cot,Her smiles bestow'd on me;Ah! then I thought, a happier lotThan mine could never be.The ...
At the meeting of the waters Where the dark tree shadows playWangaratta's sons and daughters Dream the drowsy hours away;Placid ...
The swart smoke geni with his heart aglow, And all his giant strength and vigour strung,To help our toiling lower ...
Who has a troop of romping youth About his parlour floor,Who nightly hears a round of cheers, When he is ...
If I should boast I wealthier am than you,It follows not that I am better too;If I should say, I'm ...
A question, pregnant on our lips the extent of the devastation the cost of the earthquake in that impoverished land ...
Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Winter I admonish Thee Blanket Wealthier ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
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