Ode (John Dryden Poem)
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Late Servant to his Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster I Mark how the ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
You'll know it -- as you know 'tis Noon -- By Glory -- As you do the Sun -- By ...
Wait till the Majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered Footman Might dare to touch it ...
To interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere -- And even when the Snow ...
The Way to know the Bobolink From every other Bird Precisely as the Joy of him -- Obliged to be ...
The Sun went down -- no Man looked on -- The Earth and I, alone, Were present at the Majesty ...
The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days -- Until the Coronation came -- And then -- ...
Of Bronze -- and Blaze -- The North -- Tonight -- So adequate -- it forms -- So preconcerted with ...
I'm saying every day "If I should be a Queen, tomorrow" -- I'd do this way -- And so I ...
I think to Live -- may be a Bliss To those who dare to try -- Beyond my limit to ...
A curious Cloud surprised the Sky, 'Twas like a sheet with Horns; The sheet was Blue -- The Antlers Gray ...
My Cocoon tightens -- Colors tease -- I'm feeling for the Air -- A dim capacity for Wings Demeans the ...
This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me -- The simple News that Nature told -- ...
Let's talk about the weather then, would that help you take your ease? Gossip is so rare from you the ...
When all the stars are sown Across the night-blue space, With the immense unknown, In silence face to face. We ...
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui, nor for the priceless jade disk of ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal day; We saw Thine eyes break from the ...
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
HAIL, sister springs, Parents of silver-footed rills! Ever bubbling things, Thawing crystal, snowy hills! Still spending, never spent; I mean ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
I THERE is one Mind, one omnipresent Mind, Omnific. His most holy name is Love. Truth of subliming import! with ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
A man went before a strange God -- The God of many men, sadly wise. And the deity thundered loudly, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
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