Richard Jago

thumb| 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) External links Category:1715 births Category:1781 deaths Category:Anglicans Category:Poets from England Category:University of Oxford alumni