Poems

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress’d, And secret passions labour’d in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle […]

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5 She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp’d the Baron’s ears. In vain […]

The Riddle of the World Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a […]

Two Or Three: A Recipe To Make A Cuckold Two or three visits, and two or three bows, Two or three civil things, two or three […]

Universal Prayer Father of all! In every age, In ev’ry clime ador’d, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First […]

You Know Where You Did Despise You know where you did despise (Tother day) my little Eyes, Little Legs, and little Thighs, And some things, of […]

Barbara- . ON the Sabbath-day, Through the churchyard old and gray, Over the crisp and yellow leaves I held my rustling way; And amid the words […]

Beauty- BEAUTY still walketh on the earth and air, Our present sunsets are as rich in gold As ere the Iliad’s music was out-roll’d; The roses […]

From: A Life-Drama FORERUNNERS Walter. I HAVE a strain of a departed bard; One who was born too late into this world. A mighty day was […]

Glasgow- SING, poet, ’tis a merry world; That cottage smoke is rolled and curled In sport, that every moss Is happy, every inch of soil: — […]