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 ...
'Tis the first sanction Nature gave to man,Each other to assist in what they can;Just or unjust, this law for ...
But will you now to peace incline, And languish in the main design, And leave us in the lurch? I would not monarchy ...
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 ...
After so many concurring petitionsFrom all ages and sexes, and all conditions,We come in the rear to present our folliesTo ...
Reader, preserve thy peace: those busy eyesWill weep at their own sad discoveries,When every line they add improves thy loss,Till, ...
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,That few but such as cannot write, translate.But what in them is ...
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