Poem by Royall Tyler

A Love Song

By the fierce flames of Love I'm in a sad taking,
I'm singed like a pig that is hung up for bacon,
My stomach is scorched like an over-done mutton-chop,
That for want of gravy wont afford a single drop.
Love, love, love is like a dizziness,
Wont let a poor man go about his business.

My great toes and little toes are burnt to a cinder,
As a hot burning-glass burns a dish-cloth to tinder,
As cheese by a hot salamander is roasted,
By beauty that's red-hot, like a cheese am I toasted.
Love, love, love is like a dizziness,
Wont let a poor man go about his business.

Attend all young lovers, who after ladies dandle,
I'm singed like a duck's foot over a candle,
By this that and t'other, I'm treated uncivil,
Like a gizzard I'm peppered, and then made a devil.
Love, love, love is like a dizziness,
Wont let a poor man go about his business. 

1. Ode to Night Yalden's Ode
2. A Christmas Hymn Sung in the Episcopal Church at Claremont on the Anniversary of That Festival Decem
3. Convivial Song for General Morris
4. The Death Song of Alknomook
5. Original Epitaph on a Drunkard

Clarence Dennis A Love Song ("O! Hernia! My hernia")

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