The Wife Of Bath Her Tale (John Henry Dryden Poems)
In days of old, when Arthur filled the throne,Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown,The king of elves, ...
In days of old, when Arthur filled the throne,Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown,The king of elves, ...
THE scene is the Southern Hemisphere;The time - oh, any time of the yearWill do as well as another; say ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade,Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,Whilst the World dissolves in Heat,Take this cool, and ...
All woman-kind are of intellect deficient;And the voluntary causes of all life's ills.Thou mayst be straight and even with them;But ...
I. Not the Pellaean Conquerour, To whose insatiate restless Mind The spacious Globe too narrow did appear; It made him ...
I. Enough of Rural Things, my Muse, The lowly Shrubs and Bushes of the Field To all an equal Pleasure ...
Luc. Phar. Lib. .I. Come, Life's long Hope, and on thy peaceful Breast My burning Temples let me rest! Worn ...
I. So long had Poetry possessed been By Pagans, that a Right in her they claim'd, Pleaded Prescription for their ...
He was lyin' on his bunk, In the hut behind the mill,Ravin' like a man wild drunk, Never silent, ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,Whilst the World dissolves in Heat,Take this cool, ...
Be Wise d'ye say, I scorn that Word: Love's Politicks no such Rule afford, For Love and Wisdom never yet, ...
Why, Disease, dost thou molestLadies? and of them the best?Do not men, ynow of ritesTo thy altars, by their nightsSpent ...
LIBERAL Nature did dispenceTo all things Arms for their defence;And some she arms with sin'ewy force,And some with swiftness in ...
OH! Thou whose breath empoisons the sweet air,Whose heart is evil, and whose mind despair;Whose baleful tongue the fairest fame ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
LUBIN and KATE, as gossips tell, Were Lovers many a day; LUBIN the damsel lov'd so well, That folks pretend ...
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