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Poem by Samuel Johnson
Lines
Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new;
Endless labour all along,
Endless labour to be wrong;
Phrase that time has flung away,
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
1777
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson's other poems:- To Myrtilis - The New Year's Offering
- On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S.
- Parody of a Translation from the Medea of Euripides
- To Miss --
- On Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend About a Gown and Hat
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
John Keats Lines ("UNFELT unheard, unseen") William Wordsworth Lines ("STRANGER! this hillock of misshapen stones") Samuel Coleridge Lines ("RICHER than miser o’er his countless hoards") Thomas Hood Lines ("Let Us Make a Leap, My Dear") Thomas Hardy Lines ("Before we part to alien thoughts and aims") Francis Thompson Lines ("O tree of many branches! One thou hast") Robert Burns Lines ("I MURDER hate by field or flood") 1790William Watson Lines (" Go, Verse, nor let the grass of tarrying grow") Letitia Landon Lines ("She kneels by the grave where her lover sleeps") Oliver Holmes Lines ("COME back to your mother, ye children, for shame") Joseph Drake Lines ("Day gradual fades, in evening gray") Ebenezer Elliott Lines ("FROM Shirecliffe, o’er a silent sea of trees") George Morris Lines ("O Love! the mischief thou hast done!") John Lockhart Lines ("When youthful faith hath fled") Thomas Talfourd Lines ("HOW simple in their grandeur are the forms ") Richard Trench Lines ("When we are dark and dead") John Reade Lines ("I KNELT down as I poured my spirit forth by that gray gate")
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