On Beauty. A Riddle (Matthew Prior Poems)
Resolve Me, Cloe, what is This:Or forfeit me One precious Kiss.'Tis the first Off-spring of the Graces;Bears diff'rent Forms in ...
Resolve Me, Cloe, what is This:Or forfeit me One precious Kiss.'Tis the first Off-spring of the Graces;Bears diff'rent Forms in ...
Lady, when the first swan professedher main concern it was dignityshe named. Three elements compassedin one nature a boded purityimprobable. No ...
Ye wild-eyed Muses, sing the Twins of Jove,Whom the fair-ankled Leda, mixed in loveWith mighty Saturn's Heaven-obscuring Child,On Taygetus, that ...
HEAR, ye ladies that despise What the mighty Love has done;Fear examples and be wise: Fair Callisto was a nun;Leda, sailing on ...
I am that Helen, that very Helen,Of Leda, born in the days of old.Men's hearts were as inns that I ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North. A Journal. To humbler strains, ye Nine, descend, And ...
Musicke. Phobus gave me my voyce, which pleasant Thrushes ...
By love are blest the gods on high,Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given;'Tis love that ...
I'd fain instruct you, pretty Bell,How you most others might excel;The Lesson's short, and mighty easy,I scorn with long Harangues ...
Fair Celia! when I prais'd your Charms,Your lovely Face and circling Arms;Your sparkling Eyes so full of Fire,That kindle at ...
She on the jealous gods' Olympian hill, Unrecognized as mortal, might have taken The nectar cup from Hebe's hand unshaken, ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
HEAR, ye ladies that despise What the mighty Love has done; Fear examples and be wise: Fair Callisto was a ...
Beloved, may your sleep be sound That have found it where you fed. What were all the world's alarms To ...
By love are blest the gods on high, Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given; 'Tis ...
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did ...
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, Shall find her own ...
Although the aepyornis or roc that lived in Madagascar, and the moa are extinct, the camel-sparrow, linked with them in ...
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