Richard Jago

Richard Jago (1 October 1715 – 8 May 1781) was an English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire.

Quotes

• With leaden foot Time creeps along
    While Delia is away:
  With her, nor plaintive was the song,
    Nor tedious was the day.
  Ah, envious Pow’r! reverse my doom;
    Now double thy career,
  Strain ev’ry nerve, stretch ev’ry plume,
    And rest them when she’s here!
  • "Absence" in Poems, Moral and Descriptive (1784), p. 171

• O fairest of the feather’d train!
    For whom I sing, for whom I burn,
  Attend with pity to my strain,
    And grant my love a kind return.
  • "The Blackbirds", st. 3

• No bush shall boast in all the grove
    So fond a mate, so blest a wife.
  • "The Blackbirds", st. 13

• Here, gunner, point thy thunder here.
  • "The Blackbirds", st. 19
  • Hawkesworth's Adventurer, no. 37 (13 March 1753)