Poems

The Citadel I stationed a strong force in a citadel Which soldiers had destroyed long ago. We slept there, in it, and around it, And its […]

The Power of the Pen Man’s wisdom is at the tip of his pen, His intelligence is in his writing. His pen can raise a man […]

Two Bouts of Woe Consider how shameful rejoicing is, Since it comes between two bouts of woe. You wept when you came into this world, And […]

Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick When Learning’s triumph o’er her barb’rous foes First rear’d the stage, immortal Shakespear rose; Each change of many-colour’d life he […]

On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic CONDEMN’D to Hope’s delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden […]

One And Twenty LONG-EXPECTED one and twenty Ling’ring year at last has flown, Pomp and pleasure, pride and plenty Great Sir John, are all your own. […]

The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal… Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each […]

“Defense, But Not Defiance” Song For The Rifle Volunteers Of Great Britain In General Come, let our silver bugles ring– (The gift of grateful beauty) Whene’er […]

Father Roach Father Roach was a good Irish priest, Who stood in his stocking-feet, six feet, at least. I don’t mean to say he’d six feet […]

Give Me My Arrows And Give Me My Bow Tempt me not, stranger, with gold from the mine, I have got treasure more precious than thine; […]