A Song For St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 (John Dryden Poems)
Stanza 1From harmony, from Heav'nly harmonyThis universal frame began.When Nature underneath a heapOf jarring atoms lay,And could not heave her ...
Stanza 1From harmony, from Heav'nly harmonyThis universal frame began.When Nature underneath a heapOf jarring atoms lay,And could not heave her ...
Ask not the cause why sullen spring So long delays her flow'rs to bear; Why warbling birds forget to sing, ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen, Felt an innocent warmth as she lay on the green: She had ...
From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay And could ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
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