Samuel Johnson poet from United Kingdom was born on September 18, 1709, had 75 years and died on December 13, 1784. Poems were written in Neoclassical age mainly in English language. Dominant movement is didactical.
Top ten poems Samuel Johnson
To Lady Firebrace
... Thou seem'st at once, bright nymph, a Muse and Grace ...
A Short Song of Congratulation
... Wealth, Sir John, was made to wander, ...
To Miss --,
... a room hung with flower-pieces of her own painting} ...
Part of the Dialogue Between Hector and Andromache
... Tears, at my name, shall drown those beauteous eyes, ...
From Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiae; Book II. Metre 4.
... Wouldst thou, when fierce Eurus blows, ...
To Miss Hickman, Playing the Spinet
... When old Timotheus struck the vocal string, ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated by Samuel Johnson
... New Pow'rs are claim'd, new Pow'rs are still bestowed, ...
Summer
... Where the green bower with roses crown'd, ...
On Seeing a Bust of Mrs. Montague
... Had this fair figure, which this frame displays, ...
Horace: Book II. Ode 9
... Leave off, at length, these woman's sighs, ...
