A Panegyric Of The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Resolved my gratitude to show,Thrice reverend Dean, for all I owe,Too long I have my thanks delay'd;Your favours left too ...
Resolved my gratitude to show,Thrice reverend Dean, for all I owe,Too long I have my thanks delay'd;Your favours left too ...
NO classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages-No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse's thought engages.Let others choose ...
Once a turtle, finding plenty In seclusion to bewitch, Lived a dolce far niente Kind of life within a ditch; Rivers had no charm ...
When Life was all a summer day,And I was under twenty,Three loves were scattered in my way-And three at once ...
Some sombre evening, when I sitAnd feed in solitude at home,Perchance an ultra-bilious fitPaints all the world an orange chrome.When ...
A Dramatic Lyric. A BACHELOR of common type, I sit me down before the fire And take my after-dinner pipe, ...
Made at the ' Cock.' Alfred, headwaiter at the ' Cock ' * Where nowadays I dine, Go fetch me ...
An After-Dinner SpeechI rise, gentlemen, it is the pleasant hour.Darkness falls. The night falls. ...
THROUGH the smoke clouds that I blowI can see the Long AgoAnd the merry lanes of boyhoodThat I gayly used ...
All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it That when you get an easy ...
IProjected from the bilious Childe,This clatterjaw his foot could setOn Alps, without a breast beguiledTo glow in shedding rascal sweat.Somewhere ...
I have put on my great coat it is cold. It is an outer garment. Coarse, woolen. Of unknown origin. ...
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