Epigram [As Two Divines, Their Ambling Steeds Bestriding] by “Cam.”

As two Divines, their ambling steeds bestriding,
In merry mood o’er Boston neck were riding,
At length a simple structure met their sight,
From which the felon takes his hempen flight,
When, sailor like, he squares accounts with hope,
His all depending on a single rope;
“Ah where, my friend,” cried one, “where now were you
Had yonder gallows been allowed its due?”
“Where,” said the other in sarcastic tone,
“Why where —but riding into town alone.”

From: Lewis, Paul (ed.), The Citizen Poets of Boston. A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789-1820, University Press of New England: Hanover and London, p. 33.
(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=b3OBCwAAQBAJ)

Date: 1796

By: “Cam.” (fl. 1796)

Epigram by Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna

From her man the Queen Sophie received,
his painting, richly dressed in diamonds way.
But perchance if she had had her stay,
There’d be less stones thus conceived
and more in her own tray.

From: http://www.oxenstierna.org/hist_book/Johan_Gabriel_da_en.htm

Date: c1777 (original in Swedish); 1997 (translation in English)

By: Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1750-1818)

Translated by: David Oxenstierna (19??- )

Epigram by Matthew James Chapman

I asked thee for a lock of hair;
Twas given, – then taken back from me;
Caprice but made thee seem more fair,
In vain I struggle to be free.

Think not by frowns to check my love, –
By scorn to set thy captive free;
For even frowns thy charms improve,
And scorn looks beautiful in thee.

From: Chapman, M. J., Barbadoes, and Other Poems, 1833, James Fraser: London, p. 159.
(http://books.google.com.au/books?id=JlARHWvK2yUC&dq)

Date: 1833

By: Matthew James Chapman (1796-1865)