Poems

To Edward Jenkinson, Esq Fair Youth! who wish the Wars may cease, We own you better form’d for Peace. Nor Pallas you, nor Mars shou’d follow; […]

To Mr. F. Now Earl of W No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the […]

To The Nightingale Exert thy Voice, sweet Harbinger of Spring! This Moment is thy Time to sing, This Moment I attend to Praise, And set my […]

To The Painter Of An Ill-drawn Picture of Cleone Sooner I’d praise a Cloud which Light beguiles, Than thy rash Hand which robs this Face of […]

Verses Observe this Piece, which to our Sight does bring The fittest Posture for the Swedish King; (Encompass’d, as we think, with Armies round, Tho’ not […]

Recollection How can it be that I forget The way he phrased my doom, When I recall the arabesques That carpeted the room? How can it […]

Suppose How sad if, by some strange new law, All kisses scarred! For she who is most beautiful Would be most marred. And we might be […]

At Parting Since we through war awhile must part Sweetheart, and learn to lose Daily use Of all that satisfied our heart: Lay up those secrets […]

“Daddy” Warbucks In Memoriam What’s missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn’t matter because you’ve got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks. […]

45 Mercy Street In my dream, drilling into the marrow of my entire bone, my real dream, I’m walking up and down Beacon Hill searching for […]