Cooper’s Hill (John Denham Poems)
Sure there are poets which did never dreamUpon Parnassus, nor did taste the streamOf Helicon; we therefore may supposeThose made ...
Sure there are poets which did never dreamUpon Parnassus, nor did taste the streamOf Helicon; we therefore may supposeThose made ...
Wisdom's first progress is to take a viewWhat's decent or indecent, false or true.He's truly prudent who can separateHonest from ...
Having at large declared Jove's embassy,Cyllenius from Aeneas straight doth fly;He, loth to disobey the god's command,Nor willing to forsake ...
PREFACE.My early mistress, now my ancient Muse,That strong Circaean liquor cease t'infuse,Wherewith thou didst intoxicate my youth,Now stoop with disenchanted ...
Old Chaucer, like the morning star,To us discovers day from far;His light those mists and clouds dissolved,Which our dark nation ...
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
Reader, preserve thy peace: those busy eyesWill weep at their own sad discoveries,When every line they add improves thy loss,Till, ...
So shall we joy, when all whom beasts and wormsHave turn'd to their own substances and forms:Whom earth to earth, ...
A tablet stood of that abstersive tree, Where Aethiop's swarthy bird did build her nest;Inlaid it was with Libyan ivory, Drawn from ...
What gives us that fantastic fit, That all our judgment and our wit To vulgar custom we submit?Treason, theft, murder, and all ...
Morpheus! the humble god, that dwells In cottages and smoky cells, Hates gilded roofs and beds of down; And though he fears no ...
Somnus, the humble god that dwellsIn cottages and smoky cells,Hates gilded roofs and beds of down;And, though he fears no ...
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