The Fan : A Poem. Book I. (John Gay Poems)
I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.Not the wide fan by Persian dames ...
I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.Not the wide fan by Persian dames ...
DEEP in a solitary glen,Far from the cheerful haunts of men;By poverty opprest, and taughtThe lonely task of silent thought,A ...
Lone field of graves! our churchyard old and hoar! Trench'd deep, and sown by Death with mortal grain;Decayed, and dead it ...
ENCLOS'D within a spot of earth,A form superior lies,Endow'd with talents great and rare,Humane, sincere, and wise!Oh, Pemberton! thy matchless ...
ON HER SENDING MEENGLISH CHRISTMAS PLUMB-CAKE,AT PARIS. WHAT crowding thoughts around me wake,What marvels in a Christmas-cake!Ah say, what strange enchantment ...
LORD, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory,To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam'st a ...
Thus spake his dust (so seemed it as I readThe words): Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare(Poor ghost!) To digg ...
New light gives new directions, fortunes new, To fashion our endeavours that ensue. More harsh, at least more ...
'Apollon, dieu sauveur, dieu des savants myst?res, Dieu de la vie, et dieu des plantes salutaires, Dieu vainqueur de Python, ...
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
Tell me a story, father please,And then I sat upon his knees.Then answer'd he,-"what speech make known,Or tell the words ...
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately ...
QUIETLY sleeping on its little couch The cherish'd infant lay; its curly hair Twin'd lovingly about the tranquil brow, And ...
L'innocente victime, au terrestre s?jour, N'a vu que le printemps qui lui donna le jour. Rien n'est rest? de lui ...
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately Pace, ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste ...
Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use, Did after him the World seduce: And from the Fields the Flow'rs ...
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