To A Lady Who Commanded Me To Send Her An Account In Verse (Mary Barber Poems)
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
Tho' Rhyme serves the Thoughts of great Poets to fetter,It sets off the Sense of small Poets the better.When I've ...
Tho' great Longinus claims thy aiding Hand,And hopes, thro' thee, t'instruct a barb'rous Land,Where vile Conceits the Pow'r of Wit ...
WHAT is it our mamma's bewitches, To plague us little boys with breeches ? To tyrant Custom we must yield, Whilst vanquish'd Reason ...
A wretch, in smoaky Dublin pent,Who rarely sees the Firmament,You graciously invite, to viewThe Sun's enliv'ning Rays with you;To change ...
Might I inquire the Reasons of my Fate,Or with my Maker dare expostulate;Did I, in prosp'rous Days, despise the Poor,Or ...
How gladly, Madam, would I go,To see your Gardens, and Chateau;From thence the fine Improvements view,Or walk your verdant Avenue;Delighted, ...
This mourning Mother can with Ease exploreThe Arts of Latium, and the Grecian Store:Was early learn'd, nay more, was early ...
Once Juno's Bird (as Authors say)Was seiz'd on by some Birds of Prey:They pluck'd his Feathers, one by one,Till all ...
O wretch! hath Madness cur'd thy dire Despair?Yes--All thy Sorrows now are light as Air:No more you mourn your once ...
To Day, as at my Glass I stood,To set my Head--cloaths, and my Hood;I saw my grizzled Locks with Dread,And ...
The Britons, in their Nature shy,View Strangers with a distant Eye:We think them partial and severe;And judge their Manners by ...
When you command, the Muse obeys,Proud to present her humble Lays.Of writing I'll no more repent,Nor think my Time unwisely ...
Return, brave Youth! suspend thy Martial Fire,Nor, like great Berwick, in the Field expire.Illustrious Exile! thou art gone at last;Thy ...
An Oak, with spreading Branches crown'd,Beheld an Ivy on the Ground,Expos'd to ev'ry trampling Beast,That roam'd around the dreary Waste.The ...
Ladies, this Entertainment we have shown,Has not been rightly suited, I must own.Heroic Virtue should have been display'd,And Homage to ...
OUR master, in a fatal hour, Brought in this Rod, to shew his pow'r. O dreadful birch ! O baleful tree ! Thou ...
Where--e'er you go, some Actions still we hear,Which make the Goodness of your Mind appear.Hibernia early saw those Seeds of ...
Hither, amongst the Crouds, that shunThe smoaky Town, and sultry Sun,In cooling Springs to seek for Health,Or throw away superfluous ...
Not Persia's Monarch could, unmov'd, surveyThose num'rous Hosts, which Time must sweep away:He wept Misfortunes of a distant Date;I mourn ...
The Favours of Fortune I once hop'd to gain,And often invok'd her, but ever in vain.She despis'd my Addresses, which ...
When Ruin threaten'd me of late,With all its ghastly Train;Some Pow'r, in Pity to my Fate,Sent bountiful Germain,Her Soul is ...
Is what we owe great William thenForgotten by ungrateful Men?And has His Fame run out its Date,Who snatch'd us from ...
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