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A Sonnet
WEEPING, murmuring, complaining,
Lost to every gay delight;
MYRA, too sincere for feigning,
Fears th' approaching bridal night.Yet, why impair thy bright perfection? 5
Or dim thy beauty with a tear?
Had MYRA followed my direction,
She long had wanted cause of fear.
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
- A New Simile
- A Sonnet
- An Author's Bedchamber
- An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog
- An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize
- Edwin and Angela
- Epilogue for Mr. Lee Lewes
- Epilogue to the Good Natur'd Man
- Epilogue to `The Sister'
- Epitaph on Thomas Parnell
- Prologue to `Zobeide'
- Retaliation
- The Deserted Village
- The Double Transformation
- The Gift
- The Haunch of Venison
- The Logicians Refuted
- The Poet Laberius
- The Taking of Quebec
- The Traveller
- Threnodia Augustalis
- Translation
- Vida's Game of Chess
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