Poems

Palace Square Hooves in the air, and the arch Of a scarletstoned throat, And the fatal firepool Of buildings drugged on sunset: Foreigners expelled From the […]

A Mathematical Problem In Verse A Cooper and Vintner sat down for a talk, Both being so groggy, that neither could walk, Says Cooper to Vintner, […]

A Poem on Elijahs’Translation, Occasion’d by the Death of the Reverend and Learn Coelo Musa beat. Hor. Carm. Lib. 4. Od. 8.–Nec meus audet Rem tentare […]

An Elegy on the Death of the Honourable Nicholas Lowe, Esq: Memor esto brevis Ae What means this Mourning, Ladies, has Death led. Your Brother Captive […]

An Elegy On the Death of Thomas Bordley, Esq; In Magna Obijt Britania Undecimo die Octobris: Awake, my Soul, from abject Thoughts retire, Invoke the sacred […]

Another to Urania Attend, ye mournful Parents, while I sing, a Mother in Israel; The fam’d, the gracious Shunamite, Whose beauteous Story would invite A Saint […]

So have I seen a little silly Fly So have I seen a little silly Fly Upon a blazing Taper dart and die. The foolish Insect […]

So Paradise was brightned, so ’twas blest So Paradise was brightned, so ’twas blest, When Innocence and Beauty it possest. Such was it’s more retired Path […]

Sotweed redivivus {TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain, Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain: That purblind Goddess on the […]

The History of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia CANTO I This CANTO gives you a Narration Of Col’nel Bacon’s Provocation; And shews, in what rebellious […]