Representative Poetry Online

Poems

1This Little, Silent, Gloomy Monument,

2Contains all that was sweet and innocent ;

3The softest pratler that e'er found a Tongue,

4His Voice was Musick and his Words a Song ;

5Which now each List'ning Angel smiling hears,

6Such pretty Harmonies compose the Spheres;

7Wanton as unfledg'd Cupids, ere their Charms

8Has learn'd the little arts of doing harms ;

9Fair as young Cherubins, as soft and kind,

10And tho translated could not be refin'd ;

11The Seventh dear pledge the Nuptial Joys had given,

12Toil'd here on Earth, retir'd to rest in Heaven ;

13Where they the shining Host of Angels fill,

14Spread their gay wings before the Throne, and smile.