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Richard Jago

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

Quotes

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  • 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!
  • 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)
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