Cymon And Iphigenia. From Boccace (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Old as I am, for lady's love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet,Which once inflamed my soul, and still ...
Old as I am, for lady's love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet,Which once inflamed my soul, and still ...
A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged,Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged;Without unspotted, innocent within,She feared no danger, ...
In days of old, when Arthur filled the throne,Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown,The king of elves, ...
Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon.As when some great and gracious monarch dies,Soft whispers first and ...
My Lord,While flattering crowds officiously appearTo give themselves, not you, an happy year,And by the greatness of their presents proveHow ...
A parish-priest was of the pilgrim-train;An awful, reverend, and religious man.His eyes diffused a venerable grace,And charity itself was in ...
FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,This universal frame began:When nature underneath a heapOf jarring atoms lay,And could not heave her head,The ...
As needy gallants, in the scrivener's hands,Court the rich knaves that gripe their mortgaged lands;The first fat buck of all ...
Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear)I long to whisper something in your ear:A secret, which does much my ...
Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen,Occasioned by a mistress and a queen.Queen Eleanor the proud was French, they say;But ...
Ask not the cause why sullen springSo long delays her flow'rs to bear;Why warbling birds forget to sing,And winter storms ...
1.On a bank, beside a willow,Heaven her covering, earth her pillow,Sad Amynta sigh'd alone:From the cheerless dawn of morningTill the ...
I.A quire of bright beauties in spring did appear,To choose a May-lady to govern the year;All the nymphs were in ...
1.Go tell Amynta, gentle swain,I would not die, nor dare complain.Thy tuneful voice with numbers join,Thy voice will more prevail ...
High state and honours to others impart,But give me your heart:That treasure, that treasure alone,I beg for my own.So gentle ...
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