Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book III (John Gay Poems)
Of Walking the Streets by Night.O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,And traverse o'er the wide ethereal roads,Celestial queen, put ...
Of Walking the Streets by Night.O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,And traverse o'er the wide ethereal roads,Celestial queen, put ...
1 My Brothers of this world, of ev'ry Nation, Some maxims of prudence the Muse would inspire. Now restlessness reigns throughout every station; The ...
If proud Pygmalion quit his cumbrous frame,Funereal pomp the scanty tear supplies;Whilst heralds loud, with venal voice, proclaim,Lo! here the ...
ALAS my friend, how quickly pleasure flies!Life's brightest hours the swiftest fade away:Hope's distant prospects glad our longing eyes;We reach ...
Glimmers gray the leafless thicketClose beside my garden gate,Where, so light, from post to picketHops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;Who, with ...
To his Friend written under the Confinement of a long IndispositionWhile calm you sit beneath your secret Shade,And lose in ...
When window-lamps had dwindled, then I roseand left the town behind me; and on my waypassing a certain door I ...
June: 1857 Fourteen, all told, no more, Pack'd close within the door ...
The spring-wind pass'd through the forest, and whispered low in the leaves, And the cedar toss'd her head, and the ...
I PLUCKED a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, ...
Beneath the couchant lion, grey and grim,We lit upon the last of state romance,The last of chivalrous circumstance;The Champions-each his ...
1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red ...
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