From Delia To Alonzo (Janet Little Poems)
WHEN Adam was in spacious Eden plac'd,Where rural sweets luxuriant did abound,All that could charm the eye or please the ...
WHEN Adam was in spacious Eden plac'd,Where rural sweets luxuriant did abound,All that could charm the eye or please the ...
Bishop Potter, finding hotterPassions than there used to be,To the Gospel bids defiance,And appeals to modern scienceFor the remedy.Saint and ...
THEY pity Pegasus becauseThe Matrimonial Car he draws Along the ruts of life:And hot and dusty is the road,And heavy is ...
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
An'—wilt—yeh—take—this—woman—fer—to—be Yer—wedded—wife?— . . . O, strike me! Will I wot?Take 'er? Doreen? 'E stan's there arstin' me! As if ...
Not in our public parks, for private gain. This centuries-old precursor of all dramasThat lured babes in old Italy and ...
In a wood lived Brother Rabbit, Of a most flirtatious habit, He would wag his ears at ev'ry Bunny that ...
When you are feeling out of gearAnd blue as indigo; The world devoid of any cheer, Your spirits rather low;Now ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Jenny was my first sweetheart; Poor lass! she was none too smart. Though I swore she'd never rue it, She ...
I knew three sisters,--all were sweet; Wishful to wed was I, And wondered which would mostly meet The matrimonial tie. ...
"Young fellow, listen to a friend: Beware of wedlock - 'tis a gamble, It's MAN who holds the losing end ...
A farmer's wife, both young and gay, And fresh as op'ning buds of May; Had taken to herself, a Spouse, ...
I wooed her with a steeplechase, I won her with a fall, I made her heartstrings quiver on the flat ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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