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 ...
Written three hundred years since.Be it right or wrong, these men amongOn women do complayne;Affyrmynge this, how that it isA ...
Tune. — "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury."I sing not old Jason who travell'd through GreeceTo kiss the fair ...
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 ...
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
In Virgil's Sacred Verse we find,That Passion can depress or raiseThe Heav'nly, as the Human Mind:Who dare deny what Virgil ...
Miss Danae, when Fair and Young(As Horace has divinely sung)Could not be kept from Jove's EmbraceBy Doors of Steel, and ...
Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain;Torment not thus your pretty heart;Think, Flavia, we may meet again,As well as ...
AS doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; For delays ...
WHAT nymph should I admire or trust, But Chloe beauteous, Chloe just? What nymph should I desire to see, But ...
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