More from William Shenstone

  1. Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.
  2. Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
  3. Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome, at an …
  4. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
  5. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield.
  6. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
  7. Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
  8. My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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