The Campaign, A Poem, To His Grace The Duke Of Marlborough (Joseph Addison Poems)
While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim,Proud in their number to enrol your name;While emperors to you commit their cause,And ...
While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim,Proud in their number to enrol your name;While emperors to you commit their cause,And ...
Argument:The man in the wilderness asked meHow many strawberries grow in the sea;And I answered him as I thought good,As ...
SIR MAURICE was a wealthy lord,He liv'd in the north countrie,Well would he cope with foe-man's sword,Or the glance of ...
Since, dearest Harry, you will needs requestA short account of all the Muse possest,That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's ...
THOU that know'st for whom I mourn, And why these tears appear,That keep'st account till he return Of all his dust left ...
ABOVE them spread a stranger sky Around, the sterile plain,The rock-bound coast rose frowning nigh, Beyond,--the wrathful main:Chill remnants of the wintry ...
The earth, late chok'd with showers,Is now array'd in green,Her bosom springs with flowers,The air dissolves her teen;The heavens laugh ...
, The wrathful winter, 'proaching on apace, With blustering blasts had all ybar'd the treen, And old Saturnus, ...
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,A meteor shining in this sober place!Vast sums were paid, and many years were ...
But in her Temple's last recess inclos'd, On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd. Him close she curtains round with ...
Coom all you cutlin' heroes, where'ersome'er you be, All you what works at flat-backs, coom listen unto me; ...
I clomb in haste my dappled steed,And gallop'd far o'er mount and mead;And when the day drew nigh its close,I ...
This is the end of him, here he lies: The dust in his throat, the worm in his eyes,The mould ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
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