Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drewFrom Nature, I believe 'em true:They argue no corrupted mindIn him; the fault is in mankind.This ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drewFrom Nature, I believe 'em true:They argue no corrupted mindIn him; the fault is in mankind.This ...
Time was, when round the lion's den,A peopled city raised its head;'Twas not inhabited by men,But by four-footed beasts instead.The ...
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.(Divorce is nearly obsolete in England.)No ...
You wonder why so many would be buried in the sea,In this world of froth and bubble,But I don't wonder, ...
When winter's cold and summer's heatShall come and go again,A hundred years will be completeSince Marion crossed the main,And brought ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child;And she was the fairest of all flesh ...
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
We are circling, glad of the battle: we joy in the smell of the smoke. Fight on in ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
THIS 1 wot ye all whom it concerns, I, Rhymer Robin, alias Burns, October twenty-third, A ne'er-to-be-forgotten day, Sae far ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
'Twas on the 18th of August in the year of 1798, That Nelson saw with inexpressible delight The City of ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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