Samuel Johnson

Poems (4)

• Charles XII.

  From “The Vanity of Human Wishes” / ON what foundations stands the warrior’s pride, …

• 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, …

• One-and-Twenty

  Long-expected one-and-twenty, / Ling'ring year, at length is flown: …

• The City of God

  City of God, how broad and far / Outspread thy walls sublime! …