The Fagot (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Observe the dying father speak:Try, lads, can you this bundle break?Then bids the youngest of the sixTake up a well-bound ...
Observe the dying father speak:Try, lads, can you this bundle break?Then bids the youngest of the sixTake up a well-bound ...
Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy House!Chaste treasurer of all my vows,And wealth! on whose soft bosom laidMy love's fair steps ...
YOU ask me where love fails me?--what I hate?I cannot blame, for all, I hold, is fate;Yet there are hateful, ...
October is the treasurer of the year,And all the months pay bounty to her store;The fields and orchards still their tribute ...
TO THE LORD TREASURER OXFORD 1710Atlas, we read in ancient song,Was so exceeding tall and strong,He bore the skies upon ...
THE PLEASVRE OF RETIREMENT. The Reinvitation. THEOPHISA's fill'd wth Sweetness, & so Fair: Her Eyes so mild, her Breath perfumes ...
Again th' Almighty mounts his lofty Throne, And on his Right Hand sate th' Eternal Son. The Royal Writs were ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with LotIn that first war, and had his realm restoredBut rendered tributary, failed ...
A.Almighty and all-merciable Queen,To whom all this world fleeth for succour,To have release of sin, of sorrow, of teen!Glorious Virgin! ...
Of The Jackson Hall Debating Society, December 5, 1877My muse inspire me, while I tellThe weighty matters that befellOn Monday ...
Brothers!You .... with but a sixpence in your pocket, and you with half a "quid," and you with a ...
The ever rolling flood of years,Is bearing us, our hopes and fears,With all we are or crave,Into that fathomless abyss—A ...
To-day the world is wide and fairWith sunny fields of lucid air,And waters dancing everywhere;The snow is almost gone;The noon ...
Do you know this mysterious, serious Watt --Who sits at the game with the cards in his sleeve; Watching and ...
Arras! Arras! town full of strife,With calumnies and hatred rife;You were a noble town of yore;Your fame, 'tis said, they ...
When the broad-bottom'd Junto, with reason at strife,Resign'd, with a sigh, its political life;When converted to Rome, and of honesty ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy House! Chaste treasurer of all my vows, And wealth! on whose soft bosom laid My ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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