Read full poem →Then kiss'd the fair; (his kisses warmer grow
Than such as women on their sex bestow)
Then, placed beside her on the flowery ground,
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Read full poem →Yet stoop to bless a child or wife;
And such as wicked kings may mourn,
When freedom is more dear than life.
Read full poem →Unstained their praise by any venal voice,
Such as th' ambitious vainly think their due,
When prostitutes, or needy flatt'rers sue.
Read full poem →But poets in all ages had the care
To keep this cap for such as will, to wear.
Our author has it now (for every wit
Read full poem →For who to sing for Sanger could refuse?
His numbers such as Sanger's self might use.
Reviving Perrault, murdering Boileau, he
Read full poem →Inshrined on high the sacred Virgil sits, 30
And sits in measures such as Virgil's muse
To place thee near him might be fond to choose.
Read full poem →For virgins, to keep chaste, must go
Abroad with such as are not so.
With a fa, la, la.
Read full poem →Perused the matting ; then an officer
Rose up, and read the statutes, such as these : 55
Not for three years to correspond with home ;
Read full poem →60), when for the sake of a barren material fidelity to his "rose" of
marriage, he has passed over the offered flower "such as May never bore,"
the rose herself "turns away with jealousy," and gives him thorns for