The Progress Of A Divine: Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
All priests are not the same, be understood!Priests are, like other folks, some bad, some good.What's vice or virtue, sure ...
Poems about vicars (9 Poems)
The Fovrth Booke Of Qvodlibets (Robert Hayman Poems)
1. To the Reader.Sermons and Epigrams haue a like end,To improue, to reproue, and to amend:Some passe without this vse, ...
Satire III (John Donne Poems)
Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids; I must not laugh, nor weep ...
The Author Upon Himself (Jonathan Swift Poems)
By an old --pursued,A crazy prelate, and a royal prude;By dull divines, who look with envious eyesOn ev'ry genius that ...
Rutland Gate (Laurence Hope Poems)
His back is bent and his lips are blue, Shivering out in the wet:"Here's a florin, my man, for you, Go and ...
The Borough. Letter III: The Vicar–The Curate (George Crabbe Poems)
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...
A Family Epsitle To A Friend (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
DEAR BEATRICE , with pleasure I read your kind letter;On the subject, methinks, there could scarce be a better:How vivid ...
Inebriety (George Crabbe Poems)
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
God! How I Hate You! (Arthur Graeme West Poems)
God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men,Whose pious poetry blossoms on your gravesAs soon as you are in ...