Hans Carvel (Matthew Prior Poems)
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
Lowliness befits thee, violence suits thee not; a, naked man frantic in a bee-house is out of place. Leave aside ...
What num'rous texts from Paul, from ev'ry saint,Might furnish our citations, did we want?And could not see, that Righteousness, or ...
Pagan - said I - I must retract the word,For the poor Pagans were not so absurd:Their Jupiter, of gods ...
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
Oh King of grief! (a title strange, yet true, To thee of all kings only due) Oh King of wounds! ...
Because God is eternal before and after time knowing all that was and all there is yet to be Knowing ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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