To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old. The Author Then Forty (Matthew Prior Poems)
Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters,Were summoned by her high command To show their ...
Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters,Were summoned by her high command To show their ...
While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix,And in one day atone for the business of six,In a little Dutch ...
Madam, Since Anna visited the muse's seat,(Around her tomb let weeping angels wait)Hail, thou, the brightest of thy sex, and ...
You, Madam, may, with safety goDecrees of destiny to know;For at your birth kind planets reign'd,And certain happiness ordain'd:Such charms ...
At dead of night, when stars appear,And strong Bootes turns the Bear,When mortals sleep their cares away,Fatigued with labours of ...
By Sylvia if thy charming self be meant;If friendship be thy virgin vows' extent,O! let me in Aminta's praises join,Hers ...
No — I'll endure ten thousand deathsEre any further I'll comply:Oh! Sir, no man on earth that breathesHad ever yet ...
Spare, generous victor, spare the slave,Who did unequal war pursue;That more than triumph he might have,In being overcome by you.In ...
Out from the injured canvas, Kneller, strikeThese lines too faint; the picture is not like.Exalt thy thought, and try thy ...
When Kneller's works, of various grace,Were to fair Venus shown,The Goddess spied in every faceSome features of her own.Just so, ...
Thus Kitty, beautiful and young,And wild as colt untamed,Bespoke the fair from whence she sprung,With little rage inflamed.Inflamed with rage ...
Let others from the Town retire,And in the fields seek new delight;My Phillis does such joys inspire,No other objects please ...
As Nancy at her toilette sat,Admiring this, and blaming that,Tell me, she said, but tell me true,The nymph who could ...
Once I was unconfined and free,Would I had been so still!Enjoying sweetest liberty,And roving at my will.But now, not master ...
Heavy, O Lord, on my thy judgements lie;Accursed I am while God rejects my cry.O'erwhelm'd in darkness and despair I ...
Still, Dorinda, I adore;Think I mean not to deceive you,For I loved you much before,And, alas! now love you moreThough ...
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 ...
Soft Cupid, wanton, amorous boy,The other day, moved with my lyre,In flattering accents spoke his joy,And uttered thus his fond ...
In awful pomp and melancholy state,See settled Reason on the judgement-seat;Around her crowd Distrust, and Doubt, and Fear,And thoughtful Foresight, ...
Whate'er thy countrymen have doneBy law and wit, by sword and gun,In thee is faithfully recited,And all the living world ...
Phillis, give this humour over,We too long have time abused;I shall turn an errant roverIf the favour's still refused.Faith 'tis ...
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 ...
Farewell, Amynta, we must part;The charm has lost its powerWhich held so fast my captived heartUntil this fatal hour.Hadst thou ...
The Trojan swain had judged the great dispute,And beauty's power obtain'd the golden fruit,When Venus, loose in all her naked ...
As Cloe came into the Room t'other Day,I peevish began; Where so long cou'd You stay?In your Life-time You never ...
Que fais tu bergere dans ce beau vergerTu ne songe gueres a me soulager?Tu connois ma flamme, tu vois ma ...
Here reading how fond Adam was betray'd,And how by sin Eve's blasted charms decay'd,Our common loss unjustly you complain,So small ...
Phillis, since we have both been kind,And of each other had our fill,Tell me what pleasure you can findIn forcing ...
That all from Adam first began,None but ungodly Whiston doubts,And that his son and his son's sonWere all but ploughmen, ...
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