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, ...
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 ...
Beyond the fix'd and settl'd RulesOf Vice and Virtue in the Schools,Beyond the Letter of the Law,Which keeps our Men ...
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
Of all that William rules, or robeDescribes, great Rhea, of thy globe,When or on posthorse or in chaise,With much expense ...
No — I'll endure ten thousand deathsEre any further I'll comply:Oh! Sir, no man on earth that breathesHad ever yet ...
Of thy judicious Muse's sense,Young Hinchinbroke so very proud is,That Sacharissa and HortenseShe looks henceforth upon as dowdies.Yet she to ...
To John I owed great obligation,But John unhappily thought fitTo publish it to all the nation:Sure John and I are ...
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