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 ...
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
Dulce est desipere in loco.Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:So might not Bacchus give You Law?Was it ...
The Sceptics think 'twas long agoSince gods came down incognitoTo see who were their friends or foes,And how our actions ...
At Mary's tomb (sad sacred place!)The Virtues shall their vigils keep,And every Muse and every GraceIn solemn state shall ever ...
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
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 ...
To the tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.Who has e'er been at Paris must needs know the ...
Miss Danae, when Fair and Young(As Horace has divinely sung)Could not be kept from Jove's EmbraceBy Doors of Steel, and ...
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
Celia and I the other DayWalk'd o'er the Sand-Hills to the Sea:The setting Sun adorn'd the Coast,His Beams entire, his ...
Sly Merry Andrew, the last Southwark fair;(At Bartholomew he did not much appear,So peevish was the dict of the Mayor)At ...
As the Chameleon, who is knownTo have no colours of his own,But borrows from his neighbour's hueHis white or black, ...
Recit.Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shadeHis lyre to mournful numbers strung,Horace, immortal bard supinely laid,To Venus thus address'd the song;Ten ...
Let others from the Town retire,And in the fields seek new delight;My Phillis does such joys inspire,No other objects please ...
Whilst others proclaimThis nymph or that swain,Dearest Nelly the lovely I'll sing:She shall grace every verse,I'll her beauties rehearse,Which lovers ...
It oft to many has successful beenUpon his arm to let his mistress lean,Or with her airy fan to cool ...
Well, I will never more complain,Or call the Fates unkind;Alas! how fond it is, how vain!But self-conceitedness does reignI nevery ...
Let 'em Censure: what care I?The Herd of Criticks I defie.Let the Wretches know, I writeRegardless of their Grace, or ...
Some kind angel, gently flying,Moved with pity at my pain,Tell Corinna I am dyingTill with joy we meet again.Tell Corinna, ...
I know that Fortune long has wanted sight,And therefore pardon'd when she did not right;But yet till then it never ...
While faster than his costive brain inditesPhilo's quick hand in flowing letters writes;His case appears to me like honest Teague's,When ...
Of thy judicious Muse's sense,Young Hinchinbroke so very proud is,That Sacharissa and HortenseShe looks henceforth upon as dowdies.Yet she to ...
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