Market Women’s Cries (Jonathan Swift Poems)
APPLESCOME buy my fine wares, Plums, apples and pears. A hundred a penny, In conscience too many: Come, will you have any? My children are ...
APPLESCOME buy my fine wares, Plums, apples and pears. A hundred a penny, In conscience too many: Come, will you have any? My children are ...
I am a peaceful working man,I am not wise or strong,But I can follow Nature's plan,In labour, rest, and song.One ...
Ho, for the Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee!He was as wicked as wicked could be,But oh, he was perfectly gorgeous ...
Let Others speak your Titles, and your Blood;Accept from Me the glorious Name of Good.This Honour only from fair Virtue ...
Remembrance of the past will joy impart If in that past the conscience was supreme;But if the soul be made an ...
Haste homewardes, man, draw neerer to the shore,The skies doe scowle, the windes doe blow amaine:The raged rockes, with rumbling ...
Weep not, my mother, weep not, I am blest,But must leave heaven if I return to thee;For I am where ...
The gates clanged and they walked you into jailMore tense than felons but relieved to findThe hostile world shut out, ...
We are not always glad when we smile: Though we wear a fair face and are gay, And the world we deceive May ...
The white moth-mullein brushed its slimCool, faery flowers against his knee;In places where the way lay dimThe branches, arching suddenly,Made ...
Conscience is instinct bred in the house,Feeling and Thinking propagate the sinBy an unnatural breeding in and in.I say, Turn ...
Air — "He Folds Them on His Bosom''Be kind to all little ones, All fathers, mothers dear,Be kind to your little ...
Whoever guesses, thinks, or dreams, he knowsWho is my mistress, wither by this curse ;Him, only for his purseMay some ...
John in vision saw the dayWhen the Judge will hasten down;Heav'n and earth shall flee awayFrom the terror of his ...
Plutus. Would you silence a Patriot committee, Touch their lips with this magical Wand; Through country, and senate, and city, 'Tis the lock and ...
She is beautiful yet, with her wondrous hairAnd eyes that are stormy with fitful light,The delicate hues of brow and ...
His Grace! impossible! what dead!Of old age too, and in his bed!And could that mighty warrior fall?And so inglorious, after ...
When Peter boasted, soon he fell,Yet was by grace restored;His case should be regarded wellBy all who fear the Lord.A ...
Lover of goodness, and friend to the beautiful, Ever go forth with a smile on thy cheek,Knowing that God will prosper ...
Jeremiah x. 6.IN the dark winter of affliction's hour,When summer friends and pleasures haste away,And the wrecked heart perceives how ...
'TWAS in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell:On the confines of ...
Baffled and blind as bats in the day,But cheered and guided well on the way,Morning by morning and year after ...
An' so it seems it is reported,That I hae ne'er been woo'd nor courted,But de'il speed lies;The bonny lads came ...
The word of Christ, our Lord,With whom we have to do;Is sharper than a two-edged sword,To pierce the sinner through.Swift ...
How happy is he born or taught,That serveth not another's will;Whose armour is his honest thought,And simple truth his highest ...
I stand above the city's rush and din, And gaze far down with calm and undimmed eyes, To where the misty smoke ...
Man is like God in miniature, When he is at his best;His motives and impulses pure, His heart and will at rest;No ...
I weigh not Fortune's frown or smile,I joy not much in earthly joys;I seek not state, I reck not style,I ...
'If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly, and even to harm him,' said acrafty old knave to me, 'you ...
Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong,Which asks no duties and no conscience?The moon goes up by leaps, ...
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