The Apollyonists – Canto 1 (Phineas Fletcher Poems)
IOf men, nay beasts; worse, monsters; worst of all,Incarnate fiends, English Italianate;Of priests, O no! mass-priests, priests-cannibal,Who make their Maker, ...
IOf men, nay beasts; worse, monsters; worst of all,Incarnate fiends, English Italianate;Of priests, O no! mass-priests, priests-cannibal,Who make their Maker, ...
(My God) who dids't thy glorious throne forsake, And from a Virgin pure thy manhood take, That Thou, thereby mights't us thy ...
Philosophy the great and only heirOf all that human knowledge which has binUnforfeited by man's rebellious sin,Though full of years ...
Say, Tyrant Custom, why must we obeyThe impositions of thy haughty Sway;From the first dawn of Life, unto the Grave,Poor ...
Move on thou floating Trophee built to fame!And bid her trump spread thy Majestick name;That the blew Tritons, and those ...
In heavens eternal court it was decreedHow the first martyr for the cause should bleedTo clear the country of the ...
I.This Queen of Prey (now prey to you),Fast to that pirch of ivoryIn silver chaines and silken clue,Hath now made ...
Moonmoth and grasshopper that flee our pageAnd still wing on, untarnished of the nameWe pinion to your bodies to assuageOur ...
Too long have Tyranny and Power combined,To sway, with iron sceptre, o'er mankind;Long has Oppression worn th' imperial robe,And Rapine's ...
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
I.Philosophy the great and only heirOf all that human knowledge which has binUnforfeited by man's rebellious sin,Though full of years ...
HE never yet consulted friendship's laws,Who would not suffer in her glorious cause;Who would not sacrifice the proffer'd gain,But let ...
O love, descend and with celestial fireDissolve my iciness of soul! Dispel,With thy supernal light, the clouds which hangLike phantoms ...
It was a slaughter all those of an age all under two years old put to death to assuage the ...
SCOTS, wha hae wi' WALLACE bled, Scots, wham BRUCE has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to Victorie! ...
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! ...
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