The Oeconomy Of Love (John Armstrong Poems)
Thy bounties, Love, in thy soft raptures, whenTimeliest the melting pairs indulge, and howBest to improve the genial joy, how ...
Thy bounties, Love, in thy soft raptures, whenTimeliest the melting pairs indulge, and howBest to improve the genial joy, how ...
'Tis the first sanction Nature gave to man,Each other to assist in what they can;Just or unjust, this law for ...
Prayer and the Plague are two most pow'rful things,Being both derived from the King of Kings;The Plague is sent to ...
Come, take the tenner, doctor . . . yes, I know the bill says "five,"But it ain't as if you'd ...
BEFORE thou dost attempt to pray,Of all thy vices past repent,And wash the hateful filth away,That God may to thy ...
Oh yes, there's fire in the heart of man-A beast is he when'er it pleases him:He frowns upon the members ...
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
"A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face,Of temper amorous, as the first of May,With lengths of yellow ringlet, ...
Svch time as Tytan with his fiery beames In highest degree, made duskish Leo sweat Field-tilling Swains driue home their ...
All tender hearts, that ake to hearOf those that suffer wrong;All you that never shed a tear,Give heed unto my ...
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such ...
O knights, O squires, O gentle bloods yborn, You were not born all only for yourselves: Your country claims ...
The criminal of other daysWas tortured in outlandish ways;Upon the rack they'd break his backOr at the stake they'd burn ...
As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as the first of May, With lengths of ...
That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, And yet it may be said I loved her dearly; ...
That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, And yet it may be said I loved her dearly; ...
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