It was a litter, a litter of five,
Four are drown'd and one left alive,
He was thought worthy alone to survive;
And the Bagman resolved upon bringing him up,
To eat of his bread, and to drink of his cup,
He was such a dear little cock-tail'd pup.

Phi Beta Kappa Poem

© Bliss William Carman

Harvard, 1914
SIR, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve
A high occasion. Our New England wears
All her unrivalled beauty as of old;

Metamorphoses: Book The Seventh

© Ovid

The End of the Seventh Book.

Translated into English verse under the direction of
Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
William Congreve and other eminent hands

The Second Monarchy, being the Persian, began underCyrus, Darius being his Uncle and Father-in-la

© Anne Bradstreet

Cyrus Cambyses Son of Persia King,

Whom Lady Mandana did to him bring,

The Four Seasons : Winter

© James Thomson

See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad, with all his rising train;
Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme,
These! that exalt the soul to solemn thought,

The Triumphs Of Philamore And Amoret. To The Noblest Of Our

© Richard Lovelace

Sir, your sad absence I complain, as earth
Her long-hid spring, that gave her verdures birth,
Who now her cheerful aromatick head
Shrinks in her cold and dismal widow'd bed;
Whilst the false sun her lover doth him move
Below, and to th' antipodes make love.

Prayer Answered By Crosses

© John Newton

I ask'd the Lord, that I might grow
In faith, and love, and ev'ry grace,
Might more of his salvation know,
And seek more earnestly his face.

Hudibras: Part 1 - Canto II

© Samuel Butler

THE ARGUMENT

The catalogue and character

Aerophorion

When bold Ambition tempts the ingenuous mind

To leave the beaten paths of life behind,

An Essay On The Different Stiles Of Poetry

I hate the Vulgar with untuneful Mind,
Hearts uninspir'd, and Senses unrefin'd.
Hence ye Prophane, I raise the sounding String,
And Bolingbroke descends to hear me sing.