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On Lady Polyagrue, a Public Peril
The devil,
having nothing else to do,
Went off to
tempt My Lady Poltagrue.
My Lady,
tempted by a private whim,
To his
extreme annoyance, tempted him.
On a Dead Hostess
Of this bad
world the loveliest and the best,
Has smiled
and said "Good Night", and gone to rest.
On Hygiene
Of old when
folk lay sick and sorely tied,
The doctors
gave them physic, and they died.
But here's a
happier age: for now we know
Both how to
make men sick ad keep them so.
On His Books
When I am
dead, I hope it may be said:
"His
sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
Epitaph on the Politician
Here,
richly, with ridiculous display,
The
Politician's corps was laid away.
While all of
his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
I wept; for
I had longed to see him hanged.
For False Heart
I said to
Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied:
"Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
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