Erle Robert’s Mice. In Chaucer’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Tway Mice, full Blythe and Amicable,Batten beside Erle Robert's Table.Lies there ne Trap their Necks to catch,Ne old black Cat ...
Tway Mice, full Blythe and Amicable,Batten beside Erle Robert's Table.Lies there ne Trap their Necks to catch,Ne old black Cat ...
In sullen Humour one Day JoveSent Hermes down to Ida's Grove,Commanding Cupid to deliverHis Store of Darts, his total Quiver;That ...
Beneath a Myrtle's verdant ShadeAs Cloe half asleep was laid,Cupid perch'd lightly on Her Breast,And in That Heav'n desir'd to ...
Resolve Me, Cloe, what is This:Or forfeit me One precious Kiss.'Tis the first Off-spring of the Graces;Bears diff'rent Forms in ...
Dear Howard, from the soft assaults of lovePoets and painters never are secure;Can I untouch'd the fair one's passions move,Or ...
Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain;Torment not thus your pretty heart;Think, Flavia, we may meet again,As well as ...
Of all that William rules, or robeDescribes, great Rhea, of thy globe,When or on posthorse or in chaise,With much expense ...
Recit.Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shadeHis lyre to mournful numbers strung,Horace, immortal bard supinely laid,To Venus thus address'd the song;Ten ...
While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix,And in one day atone for the business of six,In a little Dutch ...
When Kneller's works, of various grace,Were to fair Venus shown,The Goddess spied in every faceSome features of her own.Just so, ...
Heavy, O Lord, on my thy judgements lie;Accursed I am while God rejects my cry.O'erwhelm'd in darkness and despair I ...
It oft to many has successful beenUpon his arm to let his mistress lean,Or with her airy fan to cool ...
If wine and music have the powerTo ease the sickness of the soul,Let Phoebis every string explore,And Bacchus fill the ...
His lamp, his bow, and quiver laid aside,A rustic wallet o'er his shoulders tied,Sly Cupid, always on new mischief bent,To ...
When hungry wolves had trespass'd on the fold,And the robb'd shepherd his sad story told,"Call in Alcides," said a crafty ...
When Cloe's Picture was to Venus shown;Surpriz'd, the Goddess took it for Her own.And what, said She, does this bold ...
Prometheus, forming Mr. Day,Carved something like a man in clay:The mortal's work might well miscarry;He that does heaven and earth ...
When famed Varelst this little wonder drew,Flora vouchsafed the growing works to view;Finding the painter's science at a stand,The goddess ...
Touch the lyre, touch every string;Touch it, Orpheus; I will singA song which shall immortal be,Since she I sing's a ...
Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, didst thou never see ('Tis but ...
Dear Chloe, how blubbered is that pretty face; Thy cheek all on fire, and thy hair all uncurled! Prithee quit ...
As after noon, one summer's day, Venus stood bathing in a river; Cupid a-shooting went that way, New strung his ...
Dear Chloe, how blubber'd is that pretty face; Thy cheek all on fire, and thy hair all uncurl'd: Prythee quit ...
Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her, And ...
MY noble, lovely, little Peggy, Let this my First Epistle beg ye, At dawn of morn, and close of even, ...
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