Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drewFrom Nature, I believe 'em true:They argue no corrupted mindIn him; the fault is in mankind.This ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drewFrom Nature, I believe 'em true:They argue no corrupted mindIn him; the fault is in mankind.This ...
IN ancient times, as story tells,The saints would often leave their cells,And stroll about, but hide their quality,To try good ...
Sure never did man seeA wretch like poor Nancy,So teazed day and nightBy a Dean and a Knight.To punish my ...
At Market-Hill, as well appears By chronicle of ancient date,There stood for many hundred years A spacious thorn before the gate.Hither came ...
FROM Venus born, thy beauty shows;But who thy father, no man knows:Nor can the skilful herald traceThe founder of thy ...
SIR, Pray discruciate what follows.The dullest beast, and gentleman's liquor,When young is often due to the vicar,The dullest of beasts, and ...
As when a beauteous nymph decays,We say she's past her dancing days;So poets lose their feet by time,And can no ...
By something form'd, I nothing am,Yet everything that you can name;In no place have I ever been,Yet everywhere I may ...
Daphne knows, with equal ease,How to vex, and how to please;But the folly of her sexMakes her sole delight to ...
In youth exalted high in air,Or bathing in the waters fair,Nature to form me took delight,And clad my body all ...
A lion sunk by time's decay,Too feeble grown to hunt his prey,Observed his fatal hour draw nigh:He drooped and laid ...
WITH a whirl of thoughts oppress'd, I sunk from reverie to rest. A horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give ...
I with borrow'd silver shineWhat you see is none of mine.First I show you but a quarter,Like the bow that ...
We both are mortal; but thou, frailer creature, May'st die, like me, by chance, but not by nature. (Jonathan Swift)
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
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