Almeda And Flavia (Janet Little Poems)
FLAVIA.WHILE dusky shades eclipse the solar ray,And fanning zephyrs 'mong the branches play,Where varied beauties deck the verdant groves,Let us ...
Janet Little Poems on Love (28 Poems)
Damon And Philander (Janet Little Poems)
DAMON.THE sun with keenness darts his sultry ray;To some cool shade Philander haste away,Nigh yon smooth riv'let, where the southern ...
A poem On Contentment (Janet Little Poems)
INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WAN-DERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALLAT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TOBE VISITED ...
On The Death Of J—-. H—-. Esq. (Janet Little Poems)
JUNE, 1790.ERE Phoebus' beams exhal'd the pearly dew,While hoary moisture all the fields o'erspread,Where ozier cypress, and the drooping yew,Had ...
Alcanzar (Janet Little Poems)
WHEN first Alcanzar to the town did come,The people all believ'd that he was dumb:In troops, with hasty steps to ...
Lucina: An Elegy (Janet Little Poems)
DIREFUL indeed are thy effects, O love!When Reason's voice deserts thy frantic shrine;Platonic lessons no asylum prove;His dictates must obsequious ...
Celia And her Looking Glass (Janet Little Poems)
AS Celia, who a coquette was,O'er fading charms lamented,She frown'd upon her looking-glass,And thus her spleen she vented."Thou silly, stupid, ...
The Rival Swans (Janet Little Poems)
WHILE o'er the plains stern winter bore the sway,And Sol from Capricorn diffus'd his ray,Nigh Bolton Gate, beneath a hawthorn ...
A Young Lady’s Lamentation (Janet Little Poems)
FOR THELOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE.WHAT tongue can half my woes express?What force of eloquence can tell?The causes of ...
Written January First, 1792 (Janet Little Poems)
TO-DAY old wrinkl'd Time appears;A smile adorns his brow,While to our list of fleeting years,He adds the ninety-two.Our fav'rite hopes, ...
Colin And Alexis (Janet Little Poems)
NOW from before Aurora's rays,Stern darkness with its horror flies;The mountain tops begin to blaze,And Phoebus gilds the eastern skies.See ...
William And Mary (Janet Little Poems)
YOUNG William once the blithest of the swains,That grac'd the flow'ry bank, or trode the plains;Not rustic, but from affectation ...
To The Countess Of Loudoun (Janet Little Poems)
WILL gentle LOUDOUN deign to lend an ear,When nature speaks, and sorrow drops a tear?Within your walls my happiness I ...
Amanda: An Elegy On The Death Of Mrs. —–, Personating Her Husband (Janet Little Poems)
WHERE can the wretched find relief from wo,Or sue for comfort in life's dreary vale?Here can philosophy no aid bestow,And ...
From Philander To Eumenes (Janet Little Poems)
WITH pleasure I your welcome letter read,While Cupid for a little from me fled.With freedom write, dispel your trivial fears;There's ...
To A Young Man Under Sentence Of Death For Forgery (Janet Little Poems)
FROM HIS MISTRESS.IN awful solitude, in direful chains,Where deep despair and sad reflection reigns,If yet thy breast another's woes can ...
To Sylvia And Armeda (Janet Little Poems)
ARMEDA.WHY dost thou Sylvia pensive sit?Why hangs that cloud upon thy brow?Oft hast thou cheer'd us by thy wit,Why thus ...
On The Spring (Janet Little Poems)
NOW winter, reluctant, the swayResigns to the genial spring;Sol sheds an enlivening ray,And warblers delightfully sing.Fresh verdure adorns the gay ...
Verses (Janet Little Poems)
WRITTEN ON A FOREIGNER'S VISITING THE GRAVEOF A SWISS GENTLEMAN, BURIED AMONG THEDESCENDENTS OF SIR WILLIAM WAL-LACE, GUARDIAN OF SCOTLAND ...
The Unfortunate Rambler (Janet Little Poems)
LATE on an evening I chanced to roam,The night it was dark, and the streets they were dirty;It was to ...
The Captivated Soldier (Janet Little Poems)
YE swains unacquainted with love,Attend to my pitiful lay:My pipe shall resound through the grove,And my woes in sad accents ...
The Month’s Love (Janet Little Poems)
YE maidens attend to my tale,Of love that sly archer take care;His darts o'er all ranks do prevail,The wealthy, the ...
From Delia To Alonzo (Janet Little Poems)
WHEN Adam was in spacious Eden plac'd,Where rural sweets luxuriant did abound,All that could charm the eye or please the ...
The Envied Kiss (Janet Little Poems)
AND was it thine to share the bliss,For which so many sigh in vain?And did thy lips receive a kissFrom ...
The Lottery Ticket (Janet Little Poems)
CELIA, fair, beyond description,Soon became the fav'rite toast;Charms unrival'd ev'n by fiction,Did the lovely maiden boast.Beaux and sages, panting, dying,Did ...
The Fickle Pair (Janet Little Poems)
DAMON and Phillis, 'tother day,To Hymen's altar hasten'd;They talk'd of love along the way,And wish'd the knot well fasten'd.A church ...
From Alonzo To Delia (Janet Little Poems)
TO you my fair, the empress of my heart,I'm urg'd to vent my pure, untainted flame;Tho' language faintly can my ...
On Reading Lady Mary Montague And Mrs. Rowe’s Letters (Janet Little Poems)
AS Venus by night, so MONTAGUE brightLong in the gay circle did shine:She tun'd well the lyre, mankind did admire;They ...