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 ...
Shall for the Man of Ross thy Lyre be strung,And sleeps illustrious Thanet yet unsung?Since to distinguish Merit is thy ...
O thou, with ev'ry Virtue grac'd,Adorn'd with Wit, and Sense, and Taste;Who, with a Goodness unconfin'd,Delight'st in blessing human Kind,Whose ...
Return, brave Youth! suspend thy Martial Fire,Nor, like great Berwick, in the Field expire.Illustrious Exile! thou art gone at last;Thy ...
May each new Year some new Perfection give,Till all the Mother in the Daughter live!May'st Thou her Virtues to the ...
Hither, amongst the Crouds, that shunThe smoaky Town, and sultry Sun,In cooling Springs to seek for Health,Or throw away superfluous ...
I grieve to see you waste your Time,And turn your Thoughts so much to Rhyme,Be wise--your useless Views resign,And fly ...
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