Bec’s Birth-Day Nov. 8, 1726 (Jonathan Swift Poems)
This day, dear Bec, is thy nativity;Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it ye.She chose a thread of greatest ...
This day, dear Bec, is thy nativity;Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it ye.She chose a thread of greatest ...
The Scottish hinds, too poor to houseIn frosty nights their starving cows,While not a blade of grass or hayAppears from ...
The little quids, the million quids,The everywhere, everything, always quids,The atoms of the Monoton-Each turned three essences where it stoodAnd ...
THESE were my friends; Strachey, you did not know them,For they were simple, unaspiring men ;No ordinary wind of chance ...
It is winter in California, and outsideIs like the interior of a florist shop:A chilled and moisture-laden cropOf pink camellias ...
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,and remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible without surrenderbe ...
Form 394411102, Sub-Section X"All practical Eugenists are agreed on the importance of sleep."--The Eugenic Congress. When Science taught mankind to breathe A ...
Happiness Is a clean bill of health from the doctor, And the kids shouldn't move back home for more than a year, And not ...
I saw her for a moment, Her presence haunts me yet, In oft-recurring visions Of grace and gladness met That marked the sweet demeanor Of ...
Good wholesome labour was his exercise,Down with the lamb, and with the lark would rise:In mire and toiling sweat he ...
(for Peter Ruppell)You wrote such a love poem that I wasdumb-founded & left to scratch the sandAlone in the surf ...
ITo sing jubilas at exact, accustomed times,To be crested and wear the mane of a multitudeAnd so, as part, to ...
To force the pace and never to be stillIs not the way of those who study birdsOr women. The best ...
When e'er we enter Life's open field,Or life's duties are at hand,When e'er to Necessity's voice we yield,Or heed to ...
Not onely thy affection did I prise Showne to our Militarie exercise, When here I wrote thy name (deserving Hassit) No, no: thy ...
A FIRST walk after sickness: the sweet breeze That murmurs welcome in the bending trees, When the cold shadowy foe ...
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
Act III.SCENE I. The studio of the Spagnoletto. RIBERA before his canvas. LUCA in attendance.RIBERA (laying aside his brush).So! I ...
Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids!Unlock ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
I will bring fire to thee.Euripides.-'Androm'.'Eiros'.Why do you call me Eiros?'Charmion'.So henceforward will you always be called. You must forget,too, ...
'E wears perjarmer soots an' cleans 'is teeth, That's wot I reads. It fairly knocked me flat,"Me soljer cobber, be ...
How blest art thou, canst love the countrey, Wroth, Whether by choyce, or fate, or both!And, though so neere the ...
The Glugs abide in a far, far landThat is partly pebbles and stones and sand, But mainly earth of a ...
A Dramatic Lyric. A BACHELOR of common type, I sit me down before the fire And take my after-dinner pipe, ...
DAUGHTER of Exercise and calm Content,By Temperance nourish'd in the shady vale,Where Dian's nymphs resort with bows unbent,To taste the ...
A bear, however hard he tries,Grows tubby without exercise.Our Teddy Bear is short and fat,Which is not to be wondered ...
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