On the Prospect of Peace (Thomas Tickell Poems)
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
But this sad melancholick disquisition,Did not befit our jovial disposition,In these our days; therefore when we had mournedFor this good ...
WHILE Tweed's fam'd stream in numbers rolls along,And Tay's meanders sweetly glide in song;Thy windings Esk, in silence should not ...
It was not then a poet's dream, An idle vaunt of song,Such as beneath the moon's soft gleam On vacant fancies throng;Which ...
To friends attent, my sad lament,I with dool and sorrow roar;These naked walls for pity call,And grieve my heart full ...
Truly (poore night) thou welcome art to me,I love thee better in this sad attireThen that which rayseth some mens ...
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad tine,Which late ...
The woefull lamentation of Jane Shore, a goldsmith's wife in London, sometime king Edward IV. his concubine. To the tune ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
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