Folly

Found in 8 poems.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

  • 29When Folly, frequent harbinger of crime,
  • 30Bedecks her cap with bells of every Clime;
  • 150For simpering Folly loves a varied song,
  • 587Gods! o'er those boards shall Folly rear her head,

Priestly

  • 11Insulting aye the wrongs of patient Folly;
  • 12And from her dark retreat by Wisdom won

Religious Musings[;] A Desultory Poem, Written in the Christmans Eve of 1794

  • 341And patient Folly who on bended knee
  • 342Gives back the steel that stabbed him; and pale Fear

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto the First[;] Childe Harold's Goodnight

  • 374Here Folly still his votaries inthralls;

To the Muse

  • 13Where fashion flaunts her robes by Folly spun,

Happiness

  • 25And watch the glance in Folly's eye;

To Dissapointment

  • 8>There with Guilt and Folly dwell!

Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan, Spoken at Drury-Lane Theatre, London

  • 68And Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.