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Miscellaneous Epigrams(八)
2023-12-06viii An Epitaph Come knock your heads against this stone. For sorrow that poor John Thompson's gone....
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(九)
2023-12-06ix Another I was buried near this dyke, That my friends may weep as much as they like....
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十)
2023-12-06x Another Here lies John Trot, the friend of all mankind: He has not left one enemy behind. Friends were quite hard to find, old authors say; But now ...
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十一)
2023-12-06xi When France got free, Europe, 'twixt fools and knaves, Were savage first to France, and after —— slaves....
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十二)
2023-12-06xii On the virginity of the Virgin Mary and Johanna Southcott Whate'er is done to her she cannot know, And if you'll ask her she will swear it...
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十三)
2023-12-06xiii Imitation of Pope: a compliment to the Ladies Wondrous the gods, more wondrous are the men, More wondrous, wondrous still, the cock and hen, More...
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十四)
2023-12-06xiv When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether Her knees and elbows are only glued together....
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十五)
2023-12-06xv To Chloe's breast young Cupid slyly stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole....
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
2023-12-06Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods or steepy mountain yields. An...
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
2023-12-06Shall I compare thee to a Summer‘s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer‘...