• An Ode
    ’T WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won
          By Philip’s warlike son:
          Aloft in awful state
          The godlike hero sate
            On his imperial throne:
          His valiant peers were placed around,
    Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
          (So should desert in arms be crowned);
        The lovely Thais,...

  • Shapcot! to thee the Fairy State
    I with discretion dedicate:
    Because thou prizest things that are
    Curious and unfamiliar,
    Take first the feast; these dishes gone,
    We’ll see the Fairy-court anon.
    A little mushroom-table spread,
    After short prayers, they set on bread,
    A moon-parched grain of purest wheat,
    With some small...