The Art Of Preserving Health. Book II (John Armstrong Poems)
DIET.Enough of Air. A desart subject now,Rougher and wilder, rises to my sight.A barren waste, where not a garland growsTo ...
DIET.Enough of Air. A desart subject now,Rougher and wilder, rises to my sight.A barren waste, where not a garland growsTo ...
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
But shall we take the Muse abroad,To drop her idly on the road,And leave our subject in the middle,As Butler ...
'Non multo post, Gengulphus, in domo sua dormiens, occisus est a quodam clerico qui cum uxore sua adulterare solebat. Cujus ...
Ding-dong! ding-dong!Merry, merry go the bells,Ding-dong! ding-dong!Over the heath, over the moor, and over the dale,"Swinging slow with sullen roar,"Dance, ...
And when they drew near to the burial ground Anhelli heard the hymn of the tombs,complaining, as it were a ...
Hence, vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!How little you bestedOr fill the fixed mind with all your ...
Sure never did man seeA wretch like poor Nancy,So teazed day and nightBy a Dean and a Knight.To punish my ...
XLIGuelpho next them the land and place possest,Whose fortunes good with his great acts agree,By his Italian sire, fro the ...
Be thy demeanour of the Christian sort,Be it obliging, affable, and right,In ev'ry place to which thou may'st resort,As is ...
LOVE, mistress is of many minds,Yet few know whom they serve;They reckon least how little LoveTheir service doth deserve.The will ...
WHO makes the last a pattern for next year, Turns no new leaf, but still the same things reads ;Seen things ...
FROM WHENCE WE BROUGHT L, FOR HIS MAJESTY, BYTHE DECIMATION OF HIS SCOTTISH SUBJECTS THERE.Toll, toll, Gentle bell, for the soul Of ...
MADAM-Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right ; By these we reach divinity, that's you ;Their loves, who have ...
I dwell in Grace's court,Enriched with Virtue's rights;Faith guides my wit, Love leads my will,Hope all my mind delights.In lowly ...
And what do you eat in the mess there compounded? For roast beef, the gravy the soap-man should claim-- The soup some ...
Upon the shore, a mile or more From traffic and confusion, An oyster dwelt, because he felt A longing for seclusion; Said he: "I ...
Little Miss Muffet discovered a tuffet,(Which never occurred to the rest of us)And, as 'twas a June day, and just ...
To what a cumbersome unwieldinessAnd burdenous corpulence my love had grown, But that I did, to make it less, And keep it ...
Happiness Is a clean bill of health from the doctor, And the kids shouldn't move back home for more than a year, And not ...
But this is concocted by rules so complete; Though piquant, is healthy and easy digested; And if you will note it as ...
No life worth naming ever comes to goodIf always nourished on the selfsame food;The creeping mite may live so if ...
Bury'd alive I dwell (Like a defiled Vestall) in a cell: This habitation is Better, then Hell: Here solitude I kisse, And mende what is ...
Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told,Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun,The King of Persia walked: ...
(Yee divine Epicures) whom sacred thirst Of high Beatitude, doth move, T'approche this Table; Here drinke, till yee burst Into a flood of ...
Like mountains - on this browLaurels of praise."I can't sing!"- "You will!" - "Sound(Put me on a dietof flour!)Like milk ...
Tis much to see how over nice some areAbout the body and household affair,While what's of worth they slightly pass ...
My friend, the things that do attain The happy life be these, I find: The riches left, not got with pain, The fruitful ...
And he dared them;Dared them to grow old and bitterAs he. He kept his pen cleanBy burying it in their ...
A little mouse nibbled a Limburger cheese,And back to his bedchamber stole,Whence never again was he destined to squeeze,For the ...
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