Hudibras – The Lady’s Answer to The Knight (Samuel Butler Poems)
That you're a beast, and turn'd to grass,Is no strange news, nor ever was;At least to me, who once you ...
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Poems about reduc (21 Poems)
New-Englands Crisis (Benjamin Tompson Poems)
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
A Poem, On The Year 1629, When The Corn Was Unwholesome By Reason Of Excessive Rain (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou Sov'reign of mercy! thou Sire of all pow'r!Who feedest the hungry, with-hold not our foodFrom us, who forgiveness repentant ...
An Heroic Epistle of Hudibras To His Lady (Samuel Butler Poems)
I who was once as great as Caesar,Am now reduc'd to Nebuchadnezzar;And from as fam'd a conquerorAs ever took degree ...
An Epistle Of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole (Richard Savage Poems)
Still let low wits, who sense nor honour prize,Sneer at all gratitude, all truth disguise;At living worth, because alive, exclaim,Insult ...
Advice To Distribute To The Poor, According To Every One’s Circumstances And Abilities (Rees Prichard Poems)
WOE to the rich, and mercilessly-proud,Who stops his ears against the beggar's cry!Unheard, unpity'd, he shall cry aloudFrom Hell's abyss, ...
Quashey; An Authentic Tale: Founded On Matter Of Fact (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
NO more let Europe's offspring boastSuperior sense and worth;Or fancy virtue is attach'dTo any spot of earth;Nor e'er suppose that ...
The Patient Countess. – extracted from Albion’s England (William Warner Poems)
Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame, but jealousie is hell;Some wives by patience have reduc'd ill husbands to live well:As did ...
To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys (Henry King Poems)
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
An Elegy address’d to His Excellency Governour BELCHER: On the Death of his Brother-in-Law (Mather Byles Poems)
Pensive, o'ercome, the Muse hung down her Head,And heard the fatal News,—"The Friend is dead.Dumb, fixt in Sorrow, she forgot ...