The Fagot (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Observe the dying father speak:Try, lads, can you this bundle break?Then bids the youngest of the sixTake up a well-bound ...
Observe the dying father speak:Try, lads, can you this bundle break?Then bids the youngest of the sixTake up a well-bound ...
Neither the most agreeable Argentines,Nor the race tracks on the Pampas,Have the power to distract from his bad moodThe Consul ...
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
, The wrathful winter, 'proaching on apace, With blustering blasts had all ybar'd the treen, And old Saturnus, ...
But in her Temple's last recess inclos'd, On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd. Him close she curtains round with ...
OXFORD. CAMBRIDGE. 1. R. T. RAIKES. ...
Part FirstYou'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff, The name of that highly deluded old fluff Who chartered a ...
THUS Tapistry of old, the Walls adorn'd, Ere noblest Dames the artful Shuttle scorn'd: Arachne, then, with Pallas did contest, ...
LIKE star points in the ether to guide a homing SoulTowards God's Eternal Haven; above the wash and roll,Across and ...
A patriot spake thus to an eager throng:"Give me the power and I shall right each wrong.And Fortune, smiling, on ...
Monseiur, mon general, first Consul, I vill not tell no lie; I come de English Jonny Bull And ...
This Consul Casement-he who heard the cry Of stricken people-and who in his fight To lift the torture load from ...
A stands for Albion, the Queen of the Main; B for the Britons she boasts in her train C for ...
WHO, born at Arpinum, of origin mean,Left the plough for the camp, and the crook for the sword?And, before his ...
"A year ago how often did I meet Under these elms, once more in sober bloom, Thy tall, sad figure ...
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Playing her parchment moon Precosia comes along a watery path of laurels and crystal lights. The starless silence, fleeing from ...
To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee, Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the ...
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