Poems

To Urania On the Death of her first and only Child. Why mourns my beauteous Friend, bereft? Her Saviour and her Heav’n are left: Her lovely […]

Death Is A Fisherman Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe’er […]

Epitaph in Bookish Style The Body of Benjamin Franklin (Printer) (Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out And stript of its lettering […]

Equivocation Some have learn’t many tricks of sly evasion, Instead of truth they use equivocation, And eke it out with mental reservation, Which, to good men, […]

He Who’d Please All Once on a Time it by Chance came to pass, That a Man and his Son were leading an Ass. Cries a […]

On the Freedom of the Press While free from Force the Press remains, Virtue and Freedom chear our Plains, And Learning Largesses bestows, And keeps unlicens’d […]

The Benefit of going to Law Two beggars traveling along, One blind, the other lame. Pick’d up an oyster on the way, To which they both […]

Wedlock Wedlock as old men note, hath likened been, Unto a public crowd or common rout; Where those that are without would fain get in, And […]

Little song for the maimed Lend me your arm To replace my leg The rats ate it for me At Verdun At Verdun I ate a […]

A Neighbours Tears O heighth! o Depthe! upon my bended knees Who dare Expound these Wondrous Mysteries: That this rare plant is cropt before mine Eyes […]