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 ...
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 ...
'Tis the first sanction Nature gave to man,Each other to assist in what they can;Just or unjust, this law for ...
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
BEING INVITED FROM CALAIS TO BOULOGNE, TO EAT A PIG.All on a weeping Monday, With a fat vulgarian sloven, Little admiral John To ...
What mighty gale hath raised a flight so strong,So high above all vulgar eyes, so long?One single rapture scarce itself ...
Great Strafford! worthy of that name, though allOf thee could be forgotten, but thy fall,Crush'd by imaginary treason's weight,Which too ...
AND MR WILLIAM MURREY'S FROM SCOTLAND. Our resident Tom, From Venice is come,And hath left the statesman behind him; Talks at the same ...
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