Selected PoemsCarcanet, 1979 - 95 pages A selection of the poetry of John Gay (1685-1732) who was part of the 'association of wits' that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. His wit is characterised by a benign and ironic sense of the fallibility of humankind. |
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... beauty , parts , wit and pride , becomes a butterfly , a spaniel , a toad . And one thinks especially of Swift's impossible and inhuman extremes of rational horses and bestial apes in the fourth voyage of Gulliver's Travels . In such a ...
... beauty , parts , wit and pride , becomes a butterfly , a spaniel , a toad . And one thinks especially of Swift's impossible and inhuman extremes of rational horses and bestial apes in the fourth voyage of Gulliver's Travels . In such a ...
Page 48
... Beauty grew , And Patty's Fame o'er all the Village flew . Soon as the blushing Morning warms the Skies , And in the ... Beauty in her Eyes , He saw , he lov'd ; for yet he ne'er had known Sweet Innocence and Beauty meet in One . 245 Ah ...
... Beauty grew , And Patty's Fame o'er all the Village flew . Soon as the blushing Morning warms the Skies , And in the ... Beauty in her Eyes , He saw , he lov'd ; for yet he ne'er had known Sweet Innocence and Beauty meet in One . 245 Ah ...
Page 67
... beauty's pow'r , For beauty withers , like a shrivell'd flow'r ; Yet those fair flow'rs that Sylvia's temples bind , Fade not with sudden blights or winter's wind ; Like those her face defys the rolling years , For art her roses and her ...
... beauty's pow'r , For beauty withers , like a shrivell'd flow'r ; Yet those fair flow'rs that Sylvia's temples bind , Fade not with sudden blights or winter's wind ; Like those her face defys the rolling years , For art her roses and her ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Copyright | |
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