English poem
Now ere like Johnny W⸺ my muse gives up the ghost
by Charles Morris (1744–1838)
Now ere like Johnny W⸺ my muse gives up the ghost, She leaves, as a legacy, Nature’s first toast; The front room of Eve Adam fill’d full of sin, Well feather’d without, and well furnish’d within.
More by Charles Morris
- Irish Extravagance, and Scotch ŒConomy
- LADY H⸺ to Mrs. P⸺
- Like old mother Philips, tho’ doubtless her betters
- Little Peru, or the Wicklow Gold-Mine
- Pat-Riot, a Revolutionary Song
- Runnymede Pillar
- Shrink from satire, O shame! what, shall Westminster school
- THE ANSWER TO CAPTAIN MORRIS’S SONG, “The COUNTRY LIFE.”