Poems

In Praise Of Writing Letters Blest be the Man! his Memory at least, Who found the Art, thus to unfold his Breast, And taught succeeding Times […]

Jealousy VAIN Love, why do’st thou boast of Wings, That cannot help thee to retire! When such quick Flames Suspicion brings, As do the Heart about […]

Jupiter And The Farmer When Poets gave their God in Crete a Birth, Then Jupiter held Traffick with the Earth, And had a Farm to Lett: […]

La Passion Vaincue On the Banks of the Severn a desperate Maid (Whom some Shepherd, neglecting his Vows, had betray’d,) Stood resolving to banish all Sense […]

Life’s Progress How gayly is at first begun Our Life’s uncertain Race! Whilst yet that sprightly Morning Sun, With which we just set out to run […]

Love, Death, and Reputation Reputation, Love, and Death, (The Last all Bones, the First all Breath, The Midd’st compos’d of Restless Fire) From each other wou’d […]

Man’s Injustice Towards Providence A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain’d. No Pyrate seiz’d his still returning Freight; Nor […]

Mercury And The Elephant As Merc’ry travell’d thro’ a Wood, (Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good) An Elephant before him lay, That much encumber’d had […]

Moral Song Would we attain the happiest State, That is design’d us here; No Joy a Rapture must create, No Grief beget Despair. No Injury fierce […]

Mussulman’s Dream Where is that World, to which the Fancy flies, When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes; Whose Map no Voyager cou’d e’er design, […]