Poem by Matthew Prior

On a Fart - Let in the House of Commons

Reader, I was born, and cried;
I crack'd, I smelt, and so I died.
Like Julius Caesar's was my death,
Who in the senate lost his breath.
Much alike entomb'd does lie
The noble Romulus and I:
And when I died, like Flora fair,
I left the commonwealth my heir.

1. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
2. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
3. If Wine and Music Have the Power
4. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
5. A Song (In vain you tell your parting lover)

Print

1362 Views

Last Poems

To Russian version