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 ...
When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,Abroad when dreaded, and beloved at home,He saw ...
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 ...
Sir,As once a twelvemonth to the priest,Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,The Spanish king presents a jennetTo show his love, -- ...
Tune — "Lady Isabella's Tragedy." or "The Stepmother's cruelty."Of Nero, tyrant, petty king,Who heretofore did reignIn famed Hibernia, I will ...
Dulce est desipere in loco.Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:So might not Bacchus give You Law?Was it ...
At Mary's tomb (sad sacred place!)The Virtues shall their vigils keep,And every Muse and every GraceIn solemn state shall ever ...
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, ...
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 ...
To the tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.Who has e'er been at Paris must needs know the ...
Light of the World, and Ruler of the Year,With happy Speed begin Thy great Career;And, as Thou dost thy radiant ...
In one great now, superior to an age,The full extremes of nature's force we find:How heavenly virtue can exalt, or ...
Madam, Since Anna visited the muse's seat,(Around her tomb let weeping angels wait)Hail, thou, the brightest of thy sex, and ...
Once I was unconfined and free,Would I had been so still!Enjoying sweetest liberty,And roving at my will.But now, not master ...
Soft Cupid, wanton, amorous boy,The other day, moved with my lyre,In flattering accents spoke his joy,And uttered thus his fond ...
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 ...
Honour, I say, or honest Fame,I mean the substance, not the name;(Not that light heap of tawdry wares,Ermin, Coronets, and ...
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