Samuel Johnson — English Poetry Library

English Poetry Library

Samuel Johnson1709–178418th century Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".

Poems

150 poems

A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC.38 lines
ABDALLA.47 lines
ACT I.--SCENE I.91 lines
ACT II.--SCENE I.53 lines
ACT IV.--SCENE I.49 lines
ACT V.13 lines
ACT V.--SCENE I.12 lines
Ad ornatissimum virum ERRICUM MEMMIUM.80 lines
Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise.4 lines
ADVERTISEMENT.74 lines
AN ELDERLY LADY.26 lines
AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN.9 lines
An universal consternation:7 lines
ANACREON, ODE NINTH.45 lines
And does his charge and labour pay26 lines
And fell a-down his shoulders with loose care118 lines
ASPASIA, DEMETRIUS.5 lines
ASPASIA, IRENE, CALI, ABDALLA.52 lines
ASPASIA.30 lines
AT BURY ASSIZES.11 lines
AUTUMN.46 lines
BOOK I. ODE XXII.25 lines
BOOK II. ODE IX.25 lines
Burlesque of some lines of Lopez de Vega4 lines
BUTLER.122 lines
BY4 lines
CALI, ABDALLA, DEMETRIUS.16 lines
CALI, ABDALLA.14 lines
CALI, DEMETRIUS, LEONTIUS, ABDALLA.13 lines
CALI, MAHOMET.7 lines
CALI, MUSTAPHA.25 lines
CALI.32 lines
COLLINS.130 lines
Cujus10 lines
Death. Adam.8 lines
DEMETRIUS, ASPASIA, CALI.26 lines
DEMETRIUS, CALI, LEONTIUS, ABDALLA.6 lines
DEMETRIUS, CALI.14 lines
DEMETRIUS, LEONTIUS, CALI.42 lines
DEMETRIUS.30 lines
DORSET.83 lines
DYER.71 lines
EPITAPH FOR MR HOGARTH.5 lines
Epitaph on Claude Phillips8 lines
Epitaphs--on his father5 lines
FROM THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES.21 lines
GARTH.124 lines
H. C.87 lines
HALIFAX.106 lines
HASAN, CARAZA.4 lines
HASAN.20 lines
He says of the Messiah:20 lines
His contractions are often rugged and harsh:129 lines
His poetical character is given by Mr. Fenton:144 lines
Humanani studium generis cui pectore fervet79 lines
IMPROMPTU TRANSLATION OF THE SAME.35 lines
In another place:8 lines
In the “Fifth Night:”—8 lines
INTRODUCTION.63 lines
Irene _signs to her attendants to retire_.79 lines
IRENE, ASPASIA, MAID.4 lines
IRENE.51 lines
J. PHILIPS.45 lines
JOHNSON'S POEMS.70 lines
KING.101 lines
KNOW YOURSELF.112 lines
LEONTIUS.41 lines
Let burlesque try to go beyond him.14 lines
LIB. IV. ODE VII. TRANSLATED.29 lines
Lord Falkland's:67 lines
MAHOMET, CALI, MUSTAPHA.12 lines
MAHOMET, CALI.23 lines
MAHOMET, IRENE.81 lines
MAHOMET, MUSTAPHA, CALI, ABDALLA.12 lines
MAHOMET, MUSTAPHA.75 lines
MAHOMET.21 lines
MEN.11 lines
Michael. Moses.4 lines
MIDSUMMER.29 lines
Milton of Satan:47 lines
Molliter ossa quiescent45 lines
MUSTAPHA.31 lines
OF A SPEECH OF AQUILEIO IN THE 'ADRIANO' OF METASTASIO, BEGINNING, 'TU14 lines
OF AN AIR IN THE 'CLEMENZA DE TITO' OF METASTASIO, BEGINNING, 'DEH! SE7 lines
Of his mistress bathing:7 lines
OF PART OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.--FROM THE SIXTH32 lines
OF PROVERBS, CHAP. IV. VERSES 6-11.19 lines
OF THE TWO FIRST STANZAS OF THE SONG 'RIO VERDE, RIO VERDE,' PRINTED6 lines
On Cowley.44 lines
ON GEORGE II. AND COLLEY CIBBER, ESQ.5 lines
ON HEARING MISS THRALE CONSULTING WITH A FRIEND ABOUT A GOWN AND HAT5 lines
ON HER COMPLETING HER THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. AN IMPROMPTU.19 lines
ON HER PLAYING UPON A HARPSICHORD IN A ROOM HUNG WITH FLOWER-PIECES OF38 lines
ON SEEING A BUST OF MRS MONTAGUE.7 lines
ON SIR THOMAS HANMER, BART.46 lines
On Strafford.12 lines
On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic36 lines
ON THE MODERN VERSIFICATION OF ANCIENT LEGENDARY5 lines
On the Thames.4 lines
OTWAY.136 lines
PARADISE LOST.8 lines
PARNELL.97 lines
PASTORAL I.26 lines
Physic and chirurgery for a lover:6 lines
Physick and chirurgery for a lover:6 lines
PLAYING ON THE SPINNET.21 lines
POMFRET.31 lines
ROCHESTER.101 lines
ROSCOMMON129 lines
SCENE II.12 lines
SCENE III.17 lines
SCENE VI.21 lines
SCENE VII.15 lines
SCENE VIII.33 lines
SMOLLETT'S POEMS.13 lines
SOMERVILE.62 lines
SPOKEN BY MR GARRICK BEFORE THE 'MASQUE OF COMUS,'39 lines
SPOKEN BY MR GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE67 lines
SPRING.41 lines
STELLA IN MOURNING.17 lines
STEPNEY.73 lines
Th' antiperistasis of age148 lines
That of the king was the following:19 lines
THE ELECTRICIAN.24 lines
The Life and Poetry of Thomas Gray20 lines
THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.25 lines
The melancholy man does not go20 lines
The Persons.17 lines
The poem was accompanied by a letter.26 lines
The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass:22 lines
The poetical propagation of light:49 lines
THE TRAGEDY OF IRENE.106 lines
The true taste of tears:4 lines
THE WINTER'S WALK.101 lines
The world and a clock:106 lines
Then down I laid my head18 lines
THIRD AND TENTH SATIRES OF JUVENAL.8 lines
THOMSON.116 lines
Thus he addresses his mistress:4 lines
Thus he represents the meditations of a lover:8 lines
TICKELL.140 lines
TO GOLDSMITH'S COMEDY OF 'THE GOOD-NATURED MAN,' 1769.31 lines
TO STELLA.80 lines
TO THE COMEDY OF 'A WORD TO THE WISE,' SPOKEN BY25 lines
Trin. Coll.11 lines
Troy confounded falls21 lines
WEST.107 lines
WRITTEN AT THE BEQUEST OF A GENTLEMAN TO WHOM A16 lines
WRITTEN IN RIDICULE OF CERTAIN POEMS PUBLISHED9 lines
WRITTEN UNDER A PRINT REPRESENTING PERSONS SKAITING.5 lines