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, ...
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 ...
Beyond the fix'd and settl'd RulesOf Vice and Virtue in the Schools,Beyond the Letter of the Law,Which keeps our Men ...
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 ...
It always has been a thought discreetTo know the company you meet;And sure there may be secret dangerIn talking much ...
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 ...
In Heav'n, one Holy-day, You readIn wise Anacreon, GanymedeDrew heedless Cupid in, to throwA Main, to pass an Hour, or ...
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 ...
Madam, Since Anna visited the muse's seat,(Around her tomb let weeping angels wait)Hail, thou, the brightest of thy sex, and ...
Still, Dorinda, I adore;Think I mean not to deceive you,For I loved you much before,And, alas! now love you moreThough ...
Heavy, O Lord, on my thy judgements lie;Accursed I am while God rejects my cry.O'erwhelm'd in darkness and despair I ...
While cruel Nero only drainsThe moral Spaniard's ebbing veins,By study worn, and slack with age,How dull, how thoughtless is his ...
Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her, And ...
AS doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; For delays ...
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