John Gay's Poetry, by popularity

• The Quidnunckis

    How vain are mortal man's endeavours?
    (Said, at dame Elleot's, master Travers)

  48 lines
• Ode to Adversity

  Daughter of Heav'n, relentless pow'r,
  Thou tamer of the human breast,

  48 lines
• Rural Sports: A Georgic - Canto II.

  Now, sporting muse, draw in the flowing reins,
  Leave the clear streams a while for sunny plains.

  173 lines
• The Shepherd's Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps

  Sparabella.
  The wailings of a maiden I recite,

  111 lines
• The Shepherd's Week : Thursday; or, The Spell

  Hobnelia.
  Hobnelia, seated in a dreary vale,

  136 lines
• The Beggar's Opera (excerpts)

  Air I.An old woman clothed in gray, &c.1-
  Through all the employments of

  77 lines
• Fable XLII. The Juggler

  A juggler long through all the town
  Had raised his fortune and renown;

  81 lines
• Sweet William's Farewell to Black-ey'd Susan: A Ballad

  All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd,
  The streamers waving in the wind,

  56 lines
• The Shepherd's Week : Tuesday; or, the Ditty

  Marian.
  Young Colin Clout, a lad of peerless meed,

  106 lines
• The Shepherd's Week : Saturday; or, The Flights

  Bowzybeus.
  Sublimer strains, O rustic muse, prepare;

  128 lines
• The Shepherd's Week : Friday; or, The Dirge

  Bumkinet.
  Why, Grubbinol, dost thou so wistful seem?

  171 lines
• Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book III

  O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,
  And traverse o'er the wide ethereal roads,

  416 lines
• The Fan : A Poem. Book III.

  Thus Mommus spoke. When sage Minerva rose,
  From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows,

  212 lines
• The Shepherd's Week : Monday; or the Squabble

  Lobbin Clout.
  Thy younglings, Cuddy, are but just awake,

  146 lines
• An Elegy on a Lap-dog

  Shock's fate I mourn; poor Shock is now no more,
  Ye Muses mourn, ye chamber-maids deplore.

  32 lines
• The Fan : A Poem. Book I.

  I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,
  With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.

  242 lines
• Rural Sports: A Georgic - Canto I.

  You, who the sweets of rural life have known,
  Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;

  270 lines
• Acis and Galatea

  Air.
  Love in her eyes sits playing,

  20 lines
• A Ballad

  'Twas when the seas were roaring
  With hollow blasts of wind;

  45 lines
• The Shepherd and the Philosopher

  Remote from cities liv'd a swain,
  Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;

  80 lines
• Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book II.

  Thus far the Muse has trac'd in useful lays
  The proper implements for wintry ways;

  588 lines
• Trivia; or the Art of Walking the Streets of London: Book I.

  Through winter streets to steer your courses aright,
  How to walk clean by day, and safe by night,

  283 lines
• Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends

  Friendship, like love, is but a name,
  Unless to one you stint the flame.

  65 lines
• The Fan : A Poem. Book II.

  Olympus' gates unfold: in heaven's high towers
  Appear in council all the immortal powers;

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