Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King (Matthew Prior Poems)
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
Behind an unfrequented glade,Where yew and myrtle mix their shade,A widow Turtle pensive sat,And wept her murder'd lover's fate.The Sparrow ...
How long, deluded Albion, wilt thou lieIn the lethargic sleep, the sad reposeBy which thy close thy constant enemyHas softly ...
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
Beyond the fix'd and settl'd RulesOf Vice and Virtue in the Schools,Beyond the Letter of the Law,Which keeps our Men ...
The Sceptics think 'twas long agoSince gods came down incognitoTo see who were their friends or foes,And how our actions ...
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
In Virgil's Sacred Verse we find,That Passion can depress or raiseThe Heav'nly, as the Human Mind:Who dare deny what Virgil ...
Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend,(Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end)Say, what did all thy busy hopes avail,That anxious ...
Forgive the muse who, in unhallow'd strains,The saint one moment from his God detains;For sure whate'er you do, where'er you ...
In Heav'n, one Holy-day, You readIn wise Anacreon, GanymedeDrew heedless Cupid in, to throwA Main, to pass an Hour, or ...
Sly Merry Andrew, the last Southwark fair;(At Bartholomew he did not much appear,So peevish was the dict of the Mayor)At ...
No — I'll endure ten thousand deathsEre any further I'll comply:Oh! Sir, no man on earth that breathesHad ever yet ...
When Kneller's works, of various grace,Were to fair Venus shown,The Goddess spied in every faceSome features of her own.Just so, ...
Heavy, O Lord, on my thy judgements lie;Accursed I am while God rejects my cry.O'erwhelm'd in darkness and despair I ...
Nanny blushes when I woo her,And with kindly chiding eyesFaintly says I shall undo her;Faintly, O, forbear! she cries.But her ...
When Nell, given o'er by the doctor, was dying,And John at the chimney stood decently crying,'Tis in vain said the ...
I have no hopes, the Duke he says, and dies.In sure and certain hopes — the prelate cries:Of these two ...
Reader, I was born, and cried;I crack'd, I smelt, and so I died.Like Julius Caesar's was my death,Who in the ...
Democritus, dear droll, revisit earth,And with our follies glut thy heighten'd mirth:Sad Heraclitus, serious wretch, return,In louder grief our greater ...
On his death-bed poor Lubin lies: His spouse is in despair: With frequent sobs, and mutual cries, They both express ...
No, no; for my virginity, When I lose that, says Rose, I'll die: Behind the elms last night, cried Dick, ...
Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her, And ...
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