Cupid And Ganymede (Matthew Prior Poems)
In Heav'n, one Holy-day, You readIn wise Anacreon, GanymedeDrew heedless Cupid in, to throwA Main, to pass an Hour, or ...
In Heav'n, one Holy-day, You readIn wise Anacreon, GanymedeDrew heedless Cupid in, to throwA Main, to pass an Hour, or ...
Thou, that dost know thy Starres, canst calculate Thy geniture, and see to what end fate Did lend thee to the earth; ...
LATE on an evening I chanced to roam,The night it was dark, and the streets they were dirty;It was to ...
If my devout Muse could ever bring Ought worth acceptance, or an offering Unto thy Vertue, justly I might deeme My selfe thrice ...
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY of the RISE, PROGRESS, AND EXTINCTION of the late REBELLION In Britain, in the Years 1745 and ...
I. Leave, bashfull Muse, the too hot Latian Shore, To Albions temperate Clime sail or'e; Sing Learnings Tempe, where clear ...
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feasts Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts: For their mirth ...
But now Sabrina's guilty fire returns, Her bosom with the raging passion burns: She with a female tenderness relents, And ...
O ponder well, ye serving Maids, The doleful Tale I sing: Learn how disastrous 'tis to wear Too high your ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. A Modern Head--Dress, with a little Polite Conversation. What base ...
"THE breeze was hush'd; the modest moon-beam slept On the green bosom of the treach'rous wave; The lover Marli wander'd ...
ON AN ELDERLY LADY WHOM I THEN SERVED. WHY am I destin'd here to stay,Excluded from the world that's gay;Confinement, ...
Fragment Il n'est que d'?tre roi pour ?tre heureux au monde. B?nis soient tes d?crets, ? sagesse profonde! Qui me ...
Thro' ev'ry part, of grief or mirth, To which the mimic stage gives birth, I ne'er, as yet, with truth ...
SHEATHE , sheathe the sword while yet you may,Be wise and harmless tho' you're gay.As once to sober thought inclin'd,This ...
You make yourself contemptible and mean,A member of the rabble, if obsceneIn conversation; wherefore when you findSome one to lewd ...
SAMUEL, Chap. xvii. YE martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine, Inspire my song, and aid my high design. The ...
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
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