Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    18th Century · English

    Poems

    Anne Finch

    Chapters
    86
    Variants
    86
    Genre
    Poetry

    Chapters

    1. 01MERCURY and the ELEPHANT. A Prefatory FABLE.verse
    2. 02All is Vanity.verse
    3. 03The Prevalence of Custom.verse
    4. 04THE Mussulman's Dream OF THE VIZIER and DERVIS.verse
    5. 05The Shepherd Piping to the Fishes.verse
    6. 06Love, Death, and Reputation.verse
    7. 07There's No To-Morrow, A FABLE imitated from Sir Roger L'Estrange.verse
    8. 08The Petition for an Absolute Retreat. Inscribed to the Right Honble CATHARINE Countess of THANET, mention'd in the Poem under the Name of ARMINDA.verse
    9. 09Jupiter and the Farmer.verse
    10. 10The Decision of Fortune. A FABLE.verse
    11. 11The Brass-Pot, and Stone-Jugg. A FABLE.verse
    12. 12Fanscomb Barn. In Imitation of MILTON.verse
    13. 13A Description of One of the Pieces of Tapistry at Long-Leat, made after the famous Cartons of Raphael; in which, Elymas the Sorcerer is miraculously struck Blind by St. Paul before Sergius Paulus, the Proconsul of Asia. Inscribed to the Honble HENRY THYNNE, under the Name of THEANOR.verse
    14. 14The Poor Man's Lamb: OR, Nathan's Parable to David after the Murder of Uriah, and his Marriage with Bathsheba. Turn'd into Verse and Paraphras'd.verse
    15. 15Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia, a Tragedy, written in French by Monsieur Racine.verse
    16. 16The SPLEEN. A Pindarick Poem.verse
    17. 17An EPISTLE from Alexander to Hephaestion in his Sickness.verse
    18. 18The following Lines occasion'd by the Marriage of Edward Herbert Esquire, and Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert.verse
    19. 19La Passion Vaincue. Done into English with Liberty.verse
    20. 20The Owl Describing her Young Ones.verse
    21. 21The Philosopher, the Young Man, and his Statue.verse
    22. 22The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat carrying to a FAIR.verse
    23. 23The Shepherd and the Calm.verse
    24. 24The LORD and the BRAMBLEverse
    25. 25The CAUTIOUS LOVERS.verse
    26. 26To DEATH.verse
    27. 27ADAM Pos'd.verse
    28. 28The House of Socrates.verse
    29. 29The EQUIPAGE. Written Originally in FRENCH by L'Abbé Reigner.verse
    30. 30The Young RAT and his DAM, the COCK and the CAT.verse
    31. 31The Wit and the Beau.verse
    32. 32The EXECUTOR.verse
    33. 33Cupid and Folly. Imitated from the FRENCH.verse
    34. 34For the Better. Imitated from Sir Roger L'Estrange.verse
    35. 35VERSES Written under the King of Sweden's Picture.verse
    36. 36A POEM for the Birth-day of the Right Honble the Lady CATHARINE TUFTON. Occasion'd by sight of some Verses upon that Subject for the preceding Year, compos'd by no Eminent Hand.verse
    37. 37A Tale of the Miser, and the Poet. Written about the Year 1709.verse
    38. 38The CHANGE.verse
    39. 39Enquiry after Peace. A Fragment.verse
    40. 40On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne, younger Son to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Weymouth.verse
    41. 41The Critick and the Writer of FABLEverse
    42. 42The King and the Shepherd. Imitated from the French.verse
    43. 43An EPISTLE from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers, returning Money she had lent him at Bassette, upon the first Day of their Acquaintance. Translated with Liberty from the French.verse
    44. 44To Edward Jenkinson, Esq a very young Gentleman, who writ a Poem on PEACE.verse
    45. 45To the Painter of an ill-drawn Picture of CLEONE, the Honorable Mrs. Thynne.verse
    46. 46A Pastoral DIALOGUE between Two Shepherdesses.verse
    47. 47ALCIDOR.verse
    48. 48[Tasso, Aminta:] Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE.verse
    49. 49[Tasso, Aminta:] AMINTOR, being ask'd by THIRSIS Who is the Object of his Love? speaks as follows.verse
    50. 50[Tasso, Aminta:] THIRSIS persuades AMINTOR not to despair upon the Predictions of Mopsus discov'ring him to be an Impostor.verse
    51. 51[Tasso, Aminta:] From the AMINTA of TASSO.verse
    52. 52[Tasso, Aminta:] From the AMINTA of TASSO. Part of the Description of the Golden Age.verse
    53. 53To the NIGHTINGALE.verse
    54. 54The ATHEIST and the ACORN.verse
    55. 55The Tradesman and the Scholar.verse
    56. 56Man's Injustice towards Providence.verse
    57. 57The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat.verse
    58. 58To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters.verse
    59. 59A Miller, his Son, and their Ass. A FABLE Translated from Monsieur de la Fontaine.verse
    60. 60The Man bitten by Fleas.verse
    61. 61REFORMATION.verse
    62. 62Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells.verse
    63. 63A Pindarick Poem Upon the Hurricane in November 1703, referring to this Text in Psalm 148. ver. 8. Winds and Storms fulfilling his Word.verse
    64. 64The HYMN.verse
    65. 65Friendship between EPHELIA and ARDELIA.verse
    66. 66The LYON and the GNAT.verse
    67. 67The MAN and his HORSE.verse
    68. 68LIFE's Progress.verse
    69. 69HOPE.verse
    70. 70Moral SONG.verse
    71. 71GLASS.verse
    72. 72The DOG and his MASTER.verse
    73. 73The PHOENIX. A SONG.verse
    74. 74A SONG.verse
    75. 75JEALOUSY. A SONG.verse
    76. 76A SONG.verse
    77. 77A SONG.verse
    78. 78A SONG.verse
    79. 79To Mr. F. now Earl of W. Who going abroad, had desired ARDELIA to write some Verses upon whatever Subject she thought fit, against his Return in the Evening.verse
    80. 80A LETTER to the same Person.verse
    81. 81FRAGMENT.verse
    82. 82PSALM the 137th, Paraphras'd to the 7th Verse.verse
    83. 83The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles.verse
    84. 84Democritus and his Neighbours. Imitated from Fontaine.verse
    85. 85The TREE.verse
    86. 86A Nocturnal Reverie.verse