An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight (Matthew Prior Poems)
While blooming youth and gay delightSit on thy rosy cheeks confess'd,Thou hast, my dear, undoubted rightTo triumph o'er this destined ...
While blooming youth and gay delightSit on thy rosy cheeks confess'd,Thou hast, my dear, undoubted rightTo triumph o'er this destined ...
Power above powers, O heavenly eloquence,That with the strong rein of commanding wordsDost manage, guide, and master th' eminenceOf men's ...
Lo! where the Moon along the skySails with her happy destiny;Oft is she hid from mortal eyeOr dimly seen,But when ...
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
OF manufactures, trade, inventions rare,Steam-towers and looms, you'd know our Borough's share -'Tis small: we boast not these rich subjects ...
Lord, let the Angels praise thy name.Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing, Folly and Sinne ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at--- Hall, North.Mr. B---n---r---d's Reflections on his Arrival at Bath.--The Case of Himself and ...
The Senses dull of my appalled museForeweryed with the trauayle of my brayneIn scannyng of the argued Bookes difuse,And darke ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. A Consultation of Physicians. Dear mother, my time has been ...
Fie pleasure, fie! thou cloyest me with delight, Thou fill'st my mouth with sweetmeats overmuch; I ...
I. DAUGHTER of gods and men, great ruling will, Seething in oily rage within the sphere Which gods and men ...
Let me but have a Wife what e'er she be So she be Woman, 'tis enough for me: I ask ...
Where are the passions they essayed, And where the tears they made to flow? Where the wild humours they portrayed ...
Into these Loves who but for Passion looks, At this first sight here let him lay them by And seek ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The power of the Lake lingers still so many years beyond its fascination ending; it was there in the beginning, ...
I What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest, or ...
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
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