The Wandering Pilgrim (Matthew Prior Poems)
Will Piggot must to Coxwould go,To live, alas! in want,Unless Sir Thomas say, No, no,Th' allowance is too scant.The gracious ...
Will Piggot must to Coxwould go,To live, alas! in want,Unless Sir Thomas say, No, no,Th' allowance is too scant.The gracious ...
Madam, Since Anna visited the muse's seat,(Around her tomb let weeping angels wait)Hail, thou, the brightest of thy sex, and ...
While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix,And in one day atone for the business of six,In a little Dutch ...
Whate'er thy countrymen have doneBy law and wit, by sword and gun,In thee is faithfully recited,And all the living world ...
Sphinx was a monster that would eatWhatever stranger she could get,Unless his ready wit disclosedThe subtile riddle she proposed.OEdipus was ...
That all from Adam first began,None but ungodly Whiston doubts,And that his son and his son's sonWere all but ploughmen, ...
Cloe beauty has, and wit,And an air that is not common;Every charm in her does meet,Fit to make a handsome ...
Dictate, O mighty judge, what thou hast seenOf cities and of courts, of books and men,And deign to let thy ...
I have no hopes, the Duke he says, and dies.In sure and certain hopes — the prelate cries:Of these two ...
Fire, Water, Woman, are Man's Ruin;Says wise Professor Vander Bruin.By Flames a House I hir'd was lostLast Year: and I ...
Prometheus, forming Mr. Day,Carved something like a man in clay:The mortal's work might well miscarry;He that does heaven and earth ...
The sturdy man, if he in love obtains,In open pomp and triumph reigns:The subtle woman, if she should succeed,Disowns the ...
Poor Hal caught his death standing under a spoutExpecting till midnight when Nan would come out;But fatal his patience, as ...
AS doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; For delays ...
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