To A Lady Who Commanded Me To Send Her An Account In Verse (Mary Barber Poems)
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
How gladly, Madam, would I go,To see your Gardens, and Chateau;From thence the fine Improvements view,Or walk your verdant Avenue;Delighted, ...
Once Juno's Bird (as Authors say)Was seiz'd on by some Birds of Prey:They pluck'd his Feathers, one by one,Till all ...
Your late kind Gift let me restore;For I must never wear it more.My Mother cries, ``What's here to do?``A Crimson ...
An Oak, with spreading Branches crown'd,Beheld an Ivy on the Ground,Expos'd to ev'ry trampling Beast,That roam'd around the dreary Waste.The ...
'Tis said, for ev'ry common GriefThe Muses can afford Relief:And, surely, on that heav'nly TrainA Boyle can never call in ...
Where--e'er you go, some Actions still we hear,Which make the Goodness of your Mind appear.Hibernia early saw those Seeds of ...
Since Phoebus makes your Verse divine,Since the God glows in ev'ry Line;Why should you think, but I, with Ease,Might write ...
Madam, I hear, and hear with Sorrow,That we're to lose Your Grace To--morrow;Nor you alone, but Lady Di.Where, thus deserted, ...
I grieve to see you waste your Time,And turn your Thoughts so much to Rhyme,Be wise--your useless Views resign,And fly ...
You say 'tis hard to copy well,Where Nature does herself excel.Allow'd -- yet still let me advise:Near as you can, ...
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