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 ...
But shall we take the Muse abroad,To drop her idly on the road,And leave our subject in the middle,As Butler ...
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
Tune — "Lady Isabella's Tragedy." or "The Stepmother's cruelty."Of Nero, tyrant, petty king,Who heretofore did reignIn famed Hibernia, I will ...
At Mary's tomb (sad sacred place!)The Virtues shall their vigils keep,And every Muse and every GraceIn solemn state shall ever ...
What can I say? What Arguments can proveMy Truth? What Colors can describe my Love?If it's Excess and Fury be ...
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
Ye careful Angels, whom eternal FateOrdains, on Earth and human Acts to wait;Who turn with secret Pow'r this restless Ball,And ...
When poets wrote and painters drewAs Nature pointed out the view,Ere Gothic forms were known in GreeceTo spoil the well-proportion'd ...
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 ...
Light of the World, and Ruler of the Year,With happy Speed begin Thy great Career;And, as Thou dost thy radiant ...
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
Dum studeo fungi fallentis munere vitae,Adfectoque viam sedibus ElysiisArctoa florens sophia, Samiisque superbusDiscipulis, animas morte carere cano.Has ego corporibus profugas ...
In awful pomp and melancholy state,See settled Reason on the judgement-seat;Around her crowd Distrust, and Doubt, and Fear,And thoughtful Foresight, ...
The amorous youth, whose tender breastWas by his darling Cat possest,Obtain'd of Venus his desire,Howe'er irregular his fire:Nature the power ...
Here reading how fond Adam was betray'd,And how by sin Eve's blasted charms decay'd,Our common loss unjustly you complain,So small ...
Bless'd be the princes who have foughtFor pompous names or wide dominion,Since by their error we are taughtThat happiness is ...
Yes, every poet is a fool;By demonstration, Ned can show it:Happy could Ned's inverted ruleProve every fool to be a ...
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