The Fable Of Midas (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Midas, we are in story told,Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:He chipp'd his bread; the pieces roundGlitter'd like spangles ...
Midas, we are in story told,Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:He chipp'd his bread; the pieces roundGlitter'd like spangles ...
BLEST were those days! Can these dull ages boastAught to compare? though now no more beguile,Chain'd in their darkling depths, ...
High Iove, with all the gods together met,To see (great King) thy comming to this Town,The casements large of heaven ...
IF, as they tell in stories old, The waters of Pactolus roll'd Over a sand of shifting gold; If ever ...
THE man who's wholly ruined, sir, fears nothing;How can he when all's lost to him already?There is a desperate gayety ...
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
IT was the time, when rest soft sliding downeFrom heauens hight into mens heauy eyes,In the forgetfulnes of sleepe doth ...
NEAR to the silver Trent SIRENA dwelleth; She to whom Nature lent All that excelleth; By which the Muses late ...
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