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 ...
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 ...
Sir,As once a twelvemonth to the priest,Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,The Spanish king presents a jennetTo show his love, -- ...
Hah! how the laurel, great Apollo's tree,And all the cavern shakes! Far off, far off,The man that is unhallow'd: for ...
Beyond the fix'd and settl'd RulesOf Vice and Virtue in the Schools,Beyond the Letter of the Law,Which keeps our Men ...
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
In one great now, superior to an age,The full extremes of nature's force we find:How heavenly virtue can exalt, or ...
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 ...
Sphinx was a monster that would eatWhatever stranger she could get,Unless his ready wit disclosedThe subtile riddle she proposed.OEdipus was ...
Yes, fairest Proof of Beauty's Pow'r,Dear Idol of My panting Heart,Nature points This my fatal Hour:And I have liv'd; and ...
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 ...
Love! inform thy faithful creatureHow to keep his fair one's heart;Must it be by truth of nature,Or by poor dissembling ...
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