Poems

The Marriage of Edward Herbert Esquire, and Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert CUPID one day ask’d his Mother, When she meant that he shou’d Wed? You’re too Young, […]

The Mussulman’s Dream Of The Vizier And Dervis. Where is that World, to which the Fancy flies, When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes; Whose […]

The Owl Describing her Young Ones Why was that baleful Creature made, Which seeks our Quiet to invade, And screams ill Omens through the Shade? ‘Twas, […]

The Petition For An Absolute Retreat. GIVE me O indulgent Fate! Give me yet, before I Dye, A sweet, but absolute Retreat, ‘Mongst Paths so lost, […]

The Philosopher, the Young Man, and his Statue A Fond Athenian Mother brought A Sculptor to indulge her Thought, And carve her Only Son; Who to […]

The Phoenix A Female Friend advis’d a Swain (Whose Heart she wish’d at ease) Make Love thy Pleasure, not thy Pain, Nor let it deeply seize. […]

The Poor Man’s Lamb NOW spent the alter’d King, in am’rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray’rs: In vain the Alter waits his […]

The Prevalence of Custom A Female, to a Drunkard marry’d, When all her other Arts miscarry’d, Had yet one Stratagem to prove him, And from good […]

The Shepherd And The Calm Soothing his Passions with a warb’ling Sound, A Shepherd-Swain lay stretch’d upon the Ground; Whilst all were mov’d, who their Attention […]

The Shepherd Piping to the Fishes A Shepherd seeking with his Lass To shun the Heat of Day; Was seated on the shadow’d Grass, Near which […]