A Postscript unto the Reader (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
And now good Reader, I return againTo talk with thee, who hast been at the painTo read throughout, and heed ...
And now good Reader, I return againTo talk with thee, who hast been at the painTo read throughout, and heed ...
Sinner.What black, what ugly crawling thing art thou?Spider.I am a spider-------Sinner.A spider, ay, also a filthy creature.Spider.Not filthy as thyself ...
We cried, " How long ! " We sighed, " Not yet; "And still with faces dawnward set" Prepare the ...
THE ARGUMENT.Ismeno conjures, but his charms are vain;Aladine will kill the Christians in his ire:Sophronia and Olindo would be slainTo ...
Dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.We cried, "How long!" We sighed, "Not yet;"And still with ...
The last Speech and dying words of the CROSS of Edinburgh, which was hanged, drawn and quartered, on Monday the ...
GONE to thy Heavenly Father's rest!The flowers of Eden round thee blowing,And on thine ear the murmurs blestOf Siloa's waters ...
"Oh that my head were waters," and mine eyes A tearful fountain, ever running over,A heart that bleeds, and struggles, moans, ...
Sweet girl! though only once we met,That meeting I shall ne'er forget;And though we ne'er may meet again,Remembrance will thy ...
Who so doth mone, and lackes a mate, to bee partaker of his woe,And will discourse of his estate, Let him and ...
Men may sing of their Havanas, elevating to the stars The real or fancied virtues of their foreign-made cigars; But I worship ...
Great thanks to Boick's friendly lays,For bards like Claud are fond of praise;But thou has screw'd my muse so high,Like ...
Where high the heavenly temple stands,The house of God not made with hands,A great High Priest our nature wears,The Patron ...
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
New formed Adam of the reddish earth, Exilde from Eden, Paradice of pleasure By Gods decree cast down to woes ...
In Arthur's court Tom Thumb did live, A man of mickle might ;The best of all the table round, ...
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
This day Prest with our Sins, the MOST HIGH Fell. Least he should Feed on Us, Christ Satiates Death With ...
Sweet girl! though only once we met, That meeting I shall ne'er forget; And though we ne'er may meet again, ...
Children Pray dearest mother if you please Cut up your double-curded cheese, The oldest of the brotherhood. It's ripe, no ...
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