#EnglishWriters
Must noble Hastings immaturely di… The honour of his ancient family, Beauty and learning thus together… To bring a winding for a wedding s… Must virtue prove death’s harbinge…
(Comus.) Your hay it is mow’d, an… Your barns will be full, and your… Come, my boys, come; Come, my boys, come; And merrily roar out Harvest Home…
Enter JANUS JANUS Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace, An hundred times the rolling sun Around the radiant belt has run
Can life be a blessing, Or worth the possessing, Can life be a blessing if love wer… Ah no! though our love all night k… And though he torment us with care…
Ask not the cause why sullen Spri… So long delays her flowers to bear… Why warbling birds forget to sing, And winter storms invert the year: Chloris is gone; and fate provides
Of all our antic sights and pagean… Which English idiots run in crowd… The Polish Medal bears the prize… A monster, more the favourite of t… Than either fairs or theatres have…
A plain-built house, after so long… Will send you half unsatisfied awa… When, fallen from your expected po… A bare convenience only is designe… You, who each day can theatres beh…
The unhappy man, who once has trai… Lives not to please himself, but o… Is always drudging, wastes his lif… Yet only eats and drinks what you… What praise soe’er the poetry dese…
Why should a foolish marriage vow, Which long ago was made, Oblige us to each other now When passion is decay’d? We lov’d, and we lov’d, as long as…
Auspicious poet, wert thou not my… How could I envy, what I must com… But since ’tis nature’s law, in lo… That youth should reign, and withe… With less regret those laurels I…
Madam, When, for our sakes, your hero you… To swelling seas, and every faithl… When you released his courage, and… A valour fatal to the enemy;
In times when princes cancelled na… And declarations which themselves… When children used their parents t… And gnaw their way, like vipers, t… Tarquin, a savage, proud, ambitiou…
O last and best of Scots! who did… Thy country’s freedom from a forei… New people fill the land now thou… New gods the temples, and new king… Scotland and thou did each in othe…
Of gentle blood, his parents’ only… Their lasting sorrow, and their va… Adorned with features, virtues, wi… A large provision for so short a r… More moderate gifts might have pro…
Were none of you, gallants, e’er d… As when the poor kind soul was und… And could not do 't at home, in so… To take a lodging, and in private… Such is our case; we can’t appoint…