thou'rt

Or his comic masterpiece, Mac Flecknoe, satirising an obscure Restoration rival: "A tun of man, in thy large bulk is writ,/but sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit" (kilderkin: an old English unit of volume equal to two firkins).

Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010

Methinks that thou'rt the finest musician o 'our time.

Here There Are Monsters 2010

Now as thou'rt better learned than me,Dear Cos', I leave it all to thee,To judge about this puzzling man,And ponder wisely – for you can.

Poem of the week: The Epistle of Deborah Dough by Mary Leapor Carol Rumens 2010

As as Scots visitor wrote in the 15th century, "London, thou'rt the flower of cities all!"

The word "Westminster"... Joanna Bogle 2009

Methinks, thou'rt frighted: Tell, what dost thou fear?

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Not much: as anxious thoughts 'gan rise, thou'rt come.

Ion 2008

Not much: as anxious thoughts 'gan rise, thou'rt come.

Ion 2008

Methinks, thou'rt frighted: Tell, what dost thou fear?

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

    When comes a likely wooer? who protests thou'rt fair?

Poems and Fragments 2006

    When comes a likely wooer? who protests thou'rt fair?

Poems and Fragments 2006