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 ...
Tune. — "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury."I sing not old Jason who travell'd through GreeceTo kiss the fair ...
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 ...
Dulce est desipere in loco.Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:So might not Bacchus give You Law?Was it ...
Beyond the fix'd and settl'd RulesOf Vice and Virtue in the Schools,Beyond the Letter of the Law,Which keeps our Men ...
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 ...
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 ...
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
While blooming youth and gay delightSit on thy rosy cheeks confess'd,Thou hast, my dear, undoubted rightTo triumph o'er this destined ...
As the Chameleon, who is knownTo have no colours of his own,But borrows from his neighbour's hueHis white or black, ...
In one great now, superior to an age,The full extremes of nature's force we find:How heavenly virtue can exalt, or ...
Dear Dick, how e'er it comes into his head, Believes, as firmly as he does his creed, That you and I, sir, ...
By Sylvia if thy charming self be meant;If friendship be thy virgin vows' extent,O! let me in Aminta's praises join,Hers ...
In awful pomp and melancholy state,See settled Reason on the judgement-seat;Around her crowd Distrust, and Doubt, and Fear,And thoughtful Foresight, ...
Since my words, though ne'er so tender,With sincerest truth express'd,Cannot make your heart surrender,Nor so much as warm your breast;What ...
Dictate, O mighty judge, what thou hast seenOf cities and of courts, of books and men,And deign to let thy ...
Dear Dick, how e'er it comes into his head, Believes, as firmly as he ...
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