Ballad (Jonathan Swift Poems)
A WONDERFUL age Is now on the stage:I'll sing you a song, if I can, How modern Whigs, Dance forty-one jigs,But God bless ...
A WONDERFUL age Is now on the stage:I'll sing you a song, if I can, How modern Whigs, Dance forty-one jigs,But God bless ...
When Persia's sceptre trembled in a handWilted with harem-heats, and all the landWas hovered over by those vulture illsThat snuff ...
In leaving us, whom thou hast governed well Holding the helm of state through all these yearsThe land at large unites ...
Lord winnowe mee from the vile dust Of vaine desires: Refine mee from my drosse, and rust, In gentle fires, Let mee not perish ...
WHAT is it our mamma's bewitches, To plague us little boys with breeches ? To tyrant Custom we must yield, Whilst vanquish'd Reason ...
Thou perverse, adverse, Caleb D' Anvers,Were I a Poet, to command Verse,With Satire, would I so ha--rass you,That you should ...
There came a youth upon the earth,Some thousand years ago,Whose slender hands were nothing worth,Whether to plow, to reap, or ...
Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question muchThat subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm;The mystery, the ...
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for YouAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;That I may rise and ...
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
(NORTHERN MEXICO, 1640)As you look from the plaza at Leon westYou can see her house, but the view is bestFrom ...
Their father's blessing on their knees they take,And now to Memphis quick advances make,Where safe arriv'd, but fearful of their ...
In sixteen hundred and forty-one,The regular yearly galleon,Laden with odorous gums and spice,India cottons and India rice,And the richest silks ...
Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles On his byles; Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the crow Come and go; Where ...
We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes who ranged India's Prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran ...
We have another viceroy now, -- those days are dead and done Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne. Delilah ...
Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm; ...
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
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