Poems

The Rook And The Sparrows A little boy with crumbs of bread Many a hungry sparrow fed. It was a child of little sense, Who this […]

The Sister’s Expostulation On The Brother’s Learning Latin Shut these odious books up, brother; They have made you quite another Thing from what you used to […]

The Sparrow And The Hen A sparrow, when sparrows like parrots could speak, Addressed an old hen who could talk like a jay: Said he, “It’s […]

The Spartan Boy When I the memory repeat Of the heroic actions great, Which, in contempt of pain and death, Were done by men who drew […]

The Text One Sunday eve a grave old man, Who had not been at church, did say, “Eliza, tell me, if you can, What text our […]

The Three Friends Three young girls in friendship met; Mary, Martha, Margaret. Margaret was tall and fair, Martha shorter by a hair; If the first excelled […]

The Triumph Of The Whale (Written in the last reign.) Io! Pæan! Io! sing To the finny people’s King. Not a mightier whale than this In […]

The Two Bees But a few words could William say, And those few could not speak plain, Yet thought he was a man one day; Never […]

The Two Boys I saw a boy with eager eye Open a book upon a stall, And read as he’d devour it all: Which when the […]

The Unbeloved Not a woman, child, or man in All this isle, that loves thee, C—ng. Fools, whom gentle manners sway, May incline to C—gh, Princes, […]