Poems

On Myselfe Good Heav’n, I thank thee, since it was design’d I shou’d be fram’d, but of the weaker kinde, That yet, my Soul, is rescu’d […]

On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne Farewell, lov’d Youth! since ’twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late […]

On The Death Of The Queen. Mary of Modena d. 1718 {1} Dark was the shade where only cou’d be seen Disasterous Yew that ever balefull […]

On The Hurricane You have obey’d, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer’s righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor sought, as heretofore, […]

Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia Enter, as in the Temple of Jerusalem, ATHALIA, MATHAN, ABNER [Mathan] WHY, to our Wonder, […]

PSALM The 137th Paraphras’d To The 7th Verse Proud Babylon! Thou saw’st us weep; Euphrates, as he pass’d along, Saw, on his Banks, the Sacred Throng […]

Reformation A Gentleman, most wretched in his Lot, A wrangling and reproving Wife had got, Who, tho’ she curb’d his Pleasures, and his Food, Call’d him […]

Song The nymph in vain bestows her pains That seeks to thrive where Bacchus reigns; In vain are charms, or smiles, or frowns, All images his […]

The Apology ‘Tis true I write and tell me by what Rule I am alone forbid to play the fool To follow through the Groves a […]

The Atheist And The Acorn Methinks this World is oddly made, And ev’ry thing’s amiss, A dull presuming Atheist said, As stretch’d he lay beneath a […]