He wrote epistles, odes, satires and songs with equal facility, and to these he added books of travel and biography and history.
His quick wit is shown in his lighter verse and epigrams.
NONSENSE
Good reader, if you e’er have seen,
When Phœbus hastens to his pillow,
The mermaids with their tresses green
Dancing upon the western billow;
If you have seen at twilight dim,
When the lone spirit’s vesper hymn
Floats wild along the winding shore,