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ToTthe Right Honourable The Lady Elizabeth Germain, Upon Seeing Her Do A generous Action. Mary Barber	When Ruin threaten'd me of late, With all its ghastly Train; Some Pow'r, in Pity to my Fate, Sent bountiful...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Lady With A Falcon On Her Fist. To The Honourable My Cousin A[nne] L[ovelace] Richard Lovelace	I. This Queen of Prey (now prey to you), Fast to that pirch of ivory In silver chaines and silken clue, Hath now made full thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle Of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole Richard Savage	Still let low wits, who sense nor honour prize, Sneer at all gratitude, all truth disguise; At living worth, because alive, exclaim, Insult the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistle To The Honourable C. B. James Beattie	When B*** invites me, and inviting sings, Instant I'd fly, (had heaven vouchsafed me wings) To hail him in that calm sequestered seat, Whence he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Honourable Employment John Webster	O my lord, lie not idle: The chiefest action for a man of great spirit Is never to be out of action. We should think The soul was never put into the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Occasion'd By Seeing The Honourable --- Treat A Person Of Merit With Insolence Mary Barber	Contented in my humble State, I look with Pity on the Great; Who only Birth, or Wealth, respect, And treat true Merit with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode IV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend In The Country Mark Akenside	I. 1. How oft shall i survey This humble roof, the lawn, the greenwood shade, The vale with sheaves o'erspread, The glassy brook, the flocks which...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode XIV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend: From The Country Mark Akenside	I. Say, Townshend, what can London boast To pay thee for the pleasures lost, The health to-day resign'd, When spring from this her favorite seat Bade...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode XVIII: To The Right Honourable Francis Earl Of Huntington Mark Akenside	I. 1. The wise and great of every clime, Through all the spacious walks of Time, Where'er the Muse her power display'd, With joy have listen'd and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne Anne Kingsmill Finch	Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And thus our Expectations to destroy, Raising...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Death Of The Right Honourable The Lord Viscount Bayning William Strode	Though after Death, Thanks lessen into Praise, And Worthies be not crown'd with gold, but bayes; Shall we not thank? To praise Thee all agree; We...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Spoken Extempore, To The Right Honourable The Lady Barbara North Mary Barber	This Present from a lovely Dame, Fair and unsully'd, as her Fame, Shall to Hibernia be convey'd, Where once, rever'd, her Father sway'd; And taught...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The hock-cart, or harvest home:to the right honourable mildmay, earl of westmorland Robert Herrick	Come, Sons of Summer, by whose toil We are the lords of wine and oil: By whose tough labours, and rough hands, We rip up first, then reap our lands....	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Right Honourable Edmund Burke William Lisle Bowles	Why mourns the ingenuous Moralist, whose mind Science has stored, and Piety refined, That fading Chivalry displays no more Her pomp and stately...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Lady Eleanor Butler and the Honourable Miss Ponsonby, William Wordsworth	A stream to mingle with your favorite Dee Along the Vale of Meditation flows; So styled by those fierce Britons, pleased to see In Nature's face the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Honourable Charles Montague, Esq. Matthew Prior	Howe'er, 'tis well that, while mankind Through fate's perverse meander errs, He can imagined pleasures find To combat against real...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Honourable Mrs. Percival. Mary Barber	And will your Goodness never have an End? And will you still persist to be my Friend? To meet me still with that engaging Air, Still open, ardent,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Honourable Mrs. Spencer, On Her Removing From Windsor To Rookly In Hampshire. Mary Barber	Where--e'er you go, some Actions still we hear, Which make the Goodness of your Mind appear. Hibernia early saw those Seeds of Worth, In your fair...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death Of His Daughter Phillis Wheatley	WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade The hand of Death, and your dear daughter laid In dust, whose absence gives your tears to flow,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Memory Of The Right Honourable Lord Talbot, Late Chancellor Of Great Britain. Addressed To His Son. James Thomson	While with the public, you, my Lord, lament A friend and father lost; permit the muse, The muse assigned of old a double theme, To praise the dead...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Right Honourable John Barber, Esq; Lord Mayor Of London, On Committing One Of My Sons To His Care. Mary Barber	To the late King of Britain a Savage was brought, Which wild in the Woods of Germania was caught. This Present so princely was train'd up with Care;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Right Honourable John Earl Of Orrery, At Bath, After The Death Of The Late Earl. Mary Barber	'Tis said, for ev'ry common Grief The Muses can afford Relief: And, surely, on that heav'nly Train A Boyle can never call in vain. Then strait invoke...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Right Honourable Lady Charlotte Gordon James Beattie	Why, Lady, wilt thou bind thy lovely brow With the dread semblance of that warlike helm, That nodding plume, and wreathe of various glow, That graced...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To the Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen's Matthew Prior	Wiessen and nature held a long contest If she created or he painted best; With pleasing thought the wondrous combat grew, She still form'd fairer, he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Right Honourable The Earl Of Orrery In Dublin Mary Barber	Let Others speak your Titles, and your Blood; Accept from Me the glorious Name of Good. This Honour only from fair Virtue springs, Ennobles Slaves,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)