Anne Kingsmill Finch's Poetry, by popularity

• To Silvia

  Silvia, let us from the crowd retire,
  For what to you and me

  15 lines
• "Trail all your pikes..."

  Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum,
  March in a slow procession from afar,

  8 lines
• The Battle Between The Rats And The Weazles

  In dire Contest the Rats and Weazles met,
  And Foot to Foot, and Point to Point was set:

  19 lines
• The Introduction

  Did I, my lines intend for publick view,
  How many censures, wou'd their faults persue,

  64 lines
• Mercury And The Elephant

  As Merc'ry travell'd thro' a Wood,
  (Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good)

  50 lines
• Psalm The 137th Paraphras'd To The 7th Verse

  Proud Babylon! Thou saw'st us weep;
    Euphrates, as he pass'd along,

  26 lines
• On Myselfe

  Good Heav'n, I thank thee, since it was design'd
  I shou'd be fram'd, but of the weaker kinde,

  12 lines
• On The Death Of The Queen

  Mary of Modena d. 1718 {1}
  Dark was the shade where only cou'd be seen

  153 lines
• The Mussulman's Dream Of The Vizier And Dervis

  Where is that World, to which the Fancy flies,
  When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes;

  40 lines
• Jupiter And The Farmer

  When Poets gave their God in Crete a Birth,
  Then Jupiter held Traffick with the Earth,

  30 lines
• The Shepherd Piping To The Fishes

  A Shepherd seeking with his Lass
    To shun the Heat of Day;

  46 lines
• Mussulman's Dream

  Where is that World, to which the Fancy flies,
  When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes;

  39 lines
• The Prevalence Of Custom

  A Female, to a Drunkard marry'd,
  When all her other Arts miscarry'd,

  43 lines
• The Brass-Pot And Stone-Jugg

  A brazen Pot, by scouring vext,
  With Beef and Pudding still perplext,

  55 lines
• There's No To-Morrow

  Two long had Lov'd, and now the Nymph desir'd,
  The Cloak of Wedlock, as the Case requir'd;

  21 lines
• To A Husband

  This is to the crown and blessing of my life,
  The much loved husband of a happy wife;

  17 lines
• Man's Injustice Towards Providence

  A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained,
  In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd.

  60 lines
• The Decision Of Fortune

  Fortune well-Pictur'd on a rolling Globe,
  With waving Locks, and thin transparent Robe,

  68 lines
• The Hymn

  To the Almighty on his radiant Throne,
  Let endless Hallelujas rise!

  70 lines
• Verses

  Observe this Piece, which to our Sight does bring
  The fittest Posture for the Swedish King;

  18 lines
• To Edward Jenkinson, Esq

  Fair Youth! who wish the Wars may cease,
  We own you better form'd for Peace.

  39 lines
• In Praise Of Writing Letters

  Blest be the Man! his Memory at least,
  Who found the Art, thus to unfold his Breast,

  40 lines
• The Tree

  Fair tree! for thy delightful shade
  'Tis just that some return be made;

  32 lines
• Love, Death, And Reputation

  Reputation, Love, and Death,
  (The Last all Bones, the First all Breath,

  54 lines
• The Philosopher, the Young Man, and his Statue

  A Fond Athenian Mother brought
  A Sculptor to indulge her Thought,

  30 lines
• The Shepherd And The Calm

  Soothing his Passions with a warb'ling Sound,
  A Shepherd-Swain lay stretch'd upon the Ground;

  58 lines
• The Cautious Lovers

  Silvia, let's from the Croud retire;
  For, What to you and me

  56 lines
• The Executor

  A Greedy Heir long waited to fulfill,
  As his Executor, a Kinsman's Will;

  39 lines
• Reformation

  A Gentleman, most wretched in his Lot,
  A wrangling and reproving Wife had got,

  40 lines
• The Bird And The Arras

  By neer resemblance see that Bird betray'd
  Who takes the well wrought Arras for a shade

  21 lines

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