Love Poems – Page 3357

• Endow the Living — with the Tears —

  Endow the Living — with the Tears — / You squander on the Dead, / And They were Men and Women — now, …

• English Encouragement of Art

  English Encouragement of Art / [First reading] / If you mean to Please Every body you will …

• The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 4

  "Hinc pallidorum longa morborum cohors / Turpisque egestas sequitur," &c.

• Epigram (Botta)

  A draught from Helicon could once inspire / The bard to wing in song his loftiest flight; / But poets of these later times require …

• Epigram On One Who Invited Many Gentlemen To A Small Dinner.

  PETER (says Pope) won't poison with his meat; / 'Tis true, for Peter gives you nought to eat.

• An Epigram.

  WHEN JOVE with fair Alcmena lay, / He kept the sun a-bed all day; / That he might taste her wond'rous charms, …

• An Epigram. (That Kate weds a fool)

  THAT Kate weds a fool what wonder can be, / Her husband has married a fool great as she.

• Epigrams on his Garden Shed

  I. / Beware of building! I intended / Rough logs and thatch, and thus it ended. …

• Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

  Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, / Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. / The dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, …

• An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq.

  'Tis not that I design to rob / Thee of thy birthright, gentle Bob, / For thou art born sole heir, and single, …

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