To The Right Honble. The Lady Dowager Torrington, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAA CCDDAAEEFFAAGG FFFFFF FFFFFF| When you command the Muse obeys | A |
| Proud to present her humble Lays | A |
| Of writing I'll no more repent | B |
| Nor think my Time unwisely spent | B |
| If Verse the Happiness procures | A |
| Of pleasing such a Soul as yours | A |
| - | |
| Endless Anxiety I find | C |
| Hath dire Effects upon the Mind | C |
| A Life of unsuccessful Care | D |
| Too often sinks us to Despair | D |
| From such a Life as this I chuse | A |
| To snatch some Moments for the Muse | A |
| To slight Mortality and soar | E |
| To Worlds where Anguish is no more | E |
| Forget Ierne's wretched State | F |
| Tho' doom'd to share her cruel Fate | F |
| Destin'd to pass my joyless Days | A |
| Where Poverty relentless preys | A |
| And form'd unhappily to grieve | G |
| For Miseries I can't relieve | G |
| - | |
| From giving Wealth my Hands are ty'd | F |
| That great Felicity's deny'd | F |
| Yet have I sometimes the Delight | F |
| To help a Wretch by what I write | F |
| To make some happier Bosoms melt | F |
| And heal the Woes they never felt | F |
| - | |
| To Torrington whose gen'rous Breast | F |
| Delights in raising the Diftress'd | F |
| Adding new Honour to her Blood | F |
| By all the Ways of doing Good | F |
| How needless is the Poet's Art | F |
| Since He that made enlarg'd her Heart | F |
Mary Barber
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To The Right Honble. The Lady Dowager Torrington, is a poem by Mary Barber. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.