Poems

Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child This Little, Silent, Gloomy Monument, Contains all that was sweet and innocent ; The softest pratler that e’er found […]

Love Arm’d Love in Fantastique Triumph satt, Whilst bleeding Hearts around him flow’d, For whom Fresh pains he did create, And strange Tryanic power he show’d; […]

On the Death of E. Waller, Esq. How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring (Worthy thy Fame) a grateful Offering? I, who by Toils of […]

On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester Mourn, Mourn, ye Muses, all your loss deplore, The Young, the Noble Strephon is no more. Yes, […]

Song Oh love! that stronger art than Wine, Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine, Wont to be priz’d above all Wealth, Disease that has more Joys than Health; […]

Song (Love) Oh love! that stronger art than Wine, Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine, Wont to be priz’d above all Wealth, Disease that has more Joys than […]

Song : ‘Love Armed’ Love in fantastic triumph sat, Whilst bleeding hearts around him flow’d, For whom fresh pains he did create, And strange tyrannic power […]

The Disappointment 1. One Day the Amarous Lisander, By an impatient Passion sway’d, Surpris’d fair Cloris, that lov’d Maid, Who cou’d defend her self no longer […]

The Dream All trembling in my arms Aminta lay, Defending of the bliss I strove to take; Raising my rapture by her kind delay, Her force […]

The Libertine A THOUSAND martyrs I have made, All sacrificed to my desire, A thousand beauties have betray’d That languish in resistless fire: The untamed heart […]