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 ...
Our vows are heard betimes, and heaven takes careTo grant, before we can conclude the prayer;Preventing angels met it half ...
Now with a general peace the world was blest,While ours, a world divided from the rest,A dreadful quiet felt, 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 ...
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,The tenants they extirpate or oppress,And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,Which the right ...
'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age,As damns not only poets, but the stage.That sacred art, by ...
A plain-built house, after so long a stay,Will send you half unsatisfied away;When, fallen from your expected pomp, you findA ...
FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,This universal frame began:When nature underneath a heapOf jarring atoms lay,And could not heave her head,The ...
To say this comedy pleased long ago,Is not enough to make it pass you now.Yet, gentlemen, your ancestors had wit,When ...
As needy gallants, in the scrivener's hands,Court the rich knaves that gripe their mortgaged lands;The first fat buck of all ...
Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'dTo unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind:When tired with following nature, you think ...
The unhappy man, who once has trailed a pen,Lives not to please himself, but other men;Is always drudging, wastes his ...
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 ...
Heaven save ye, gallants, and this hopeful age!Y' are welcome to the downfall of the stage.The fools have laboured long ...
Ask not the cause why sullen springSo long delays her flow'rs to bear;Why warbling birds forget to sing,And winter storms ...
Thespis, the first professor of our art,At country wakes, sung ballads from a cart.To prove this true, if Latin be ...
Calm was the even, and clear was the sky,And the new budding flowers did spring,When all alone went Amyntas and ...
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 ...
I.Chloe found Amyntas lying,All in tears, upon the plain,Sighing to himself, and crying,Wretched I, to love in vain!Kiss me, dear, ...
1.Go tell Amynta, gentle swain,I would not die, nor dare complain.Thy tuneful voice with numbers join,Thy voice will more prevail ...
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will ...
High state and honours to others impart,But give me your heart:That treasure, that treasure alone,I beg for my own.So gentle ...
Men are but children of a larger growth;Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,And full as craving too, and ...
O souls, in whom no heavenly fire is found,Fat minds, and ever grovelling on the ground!We bring our manners to ...
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