A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSETO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Is this a life, to break thy sleep, To rise as soon as day doth peep? To tire thy patient ...
Is this a life, to break thy sleep, To rise as soon as day doth peep? To tire thy patient ...
CYNTHIA, to thy power and thee We obey. Joy to this great company! And no day Come to steal this ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
Come show thy Durham Breast To her who loves thee best, Delicious Robin -- And if it be not me ...
WIFE and servant are the same, But only differ in the name : For when that fatal knot is ty'd, ...
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
THEL'S MOTTO 1 Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? 2 Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? ...
Cinderella in the street In a ragged gown, Sloven slippers on her feet, Shames our tidy town; Harsh her locks ...
"Young fellow, listen to a friend: Beware of wedlock - 'tis a gamble, It's MAN who holds the losing end ...
Oh Maggie, do you mind the day We went to school together, And as we stoppit by the way I ...
Love, light for me Thy ruddiest blazing torch, That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch Of the glad Palace ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked, As often before, the April fields till star-light Silkened over ...
When the buds began to burst, Long ago, with Rose the First I was walking; joyous then Far above all ...
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
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