An Account Of The Greatest English Poets (Joseph Addison Poems)
Since, dearest Harry, you will needs requestA short account of all the Muse possest,That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's ...
Since, dearest Harry, you will needs requestA short account of all the Muse possest,That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's ...
Old Chaucer, like the morning star,To us discovers day from far;His light those mists and clouds dissolved,Which our dark nation ...
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley.SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe'erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal ...
What charms you have, from what high race you sprung,Have been the pleasing subjects of my song:Unskill'd and young, yet ...
Nature's self's thy Ganymede.Cowley.EVERY bud possessingThat the garden yields,Yet in search of blessingFound in distant fields,Wild inconstant bee,What so false ...
Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids!Unlock ...
IT was a dismal and a fearful night: Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling Light, When Sleep, Death's ...
Scarce was the Nights cold Shadow from the Skies Withdrawn, when the fresh Dew, that lies Upon the tender Grass, ...
'Tis fit SERENA shou'd be sung.High-born SERENA, Fair and Young, Shou'd be of ev'ry Muse and Voice The pleasing, and ...
Beneath this gloomy shade,By Nature only for my sorrows made,I'll spend this voyce in crys,In tears I'll waste these eyesBy ...
The British Land in former Time Was thought too phlegmatick a Clime, Too cold for Verse to thrive and grow ...
AFTER ANACREON. [The strong resemblance of this fine poem to Cowley's Ode bearing the same name, and beginning "Happy insect! ...
Well Sir, 'tis granted, I said Dryden's Rhimes, Were stoln, unequal, nay dull many times: What foolish Patron, is there ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
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