This is the month, and this the ha… Wherein the Son of Heaven’s etern… Of wedded maid and virgin mother b… Our great redemption from above di… For so the holy sages once did sin…
What needs my Shakespeare for his… The labor of an age in pilèd stone… Or that his hallowed relics should… Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of Memory, great heir of…
Hence loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnigh… In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks… Find out some uncouth cell,
Hence vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father… How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all yo… Dwell in some idle brain,
Part of an entertainment presented… Darby at Harefield, by som Noble… appear on the Scene in pastoral ha… of State with this Song. Look Nymphs, and Shepherds look,
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of… Sphear—born harmonious Sisters, V… Wed your divine sounds, and mixt p… Dead things with inbreath’d sense… And to our high—rais’d phantasie p…
The Attendant Spirit, afterwards in the habit of Thyrsis. Spirit. Before the starry threshold of Jove’s court Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care, And gives them leave to...
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and… Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never s… I come to pluck your berries harsh… And with forc’d fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mel…
O Nightingale! that on yon bloomy… Warblest at eve, when all the wood… Thou with fresh hope the lover’s h… While the jolly hours lead on prop… Thy liquid notes that close the ey…
How soon hath Time, the subtle th… Stolen on his wing my three-and-tw… My hasting days fly on with full c… But my late spring no bud or bloss… Perhaps my semblance might deceive…
Captain, or colonel, or knight in… Whose chance on these defenceless… If deed of honour did thee ever pl… Guard them, and him within protect… He can requite thee, for he knows…
Lady! that in the prime of earlies… Wisely hast shunned the broad way… And with those few art eminently s… That labour up the Hill of Heaven… The better part with Mary and wit…
Daughter to that good Earl, once… Of Englands Counsel, and her Tre… Who liv’d in both, unstain’d with… And left them both, more in himsel… Till the sad breaking of that Par…
Harry, whose tuneful and well—meas… First taught our English music ho… Words with just note and accent, n… With Midas’ ears, committing shor… Thy worth and skill exempts thee f…
Fairfax, whose name in arms throug… Filling each mouth with envy, or w… And all her jealous monarchs with… And rumours loud, that daunt remot… Thy firm unshak’n virtue ever brin…
Cromwell, our chief of men, who th… Not of war only, but detractions r… Guided by faith and matchless fort… To peace and truth thy glorious wa… And on the neck of crownèd Fortun…
Vane, young in years, but in sage… Than whom a better senator ne’er h… The helm of Rome, when gowns, not… The fierce Epirot and the African… Whether to settle peace, or to unf…
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter’d s… Lie scatter’d on the Alpine mount… Ev’n them who kept thy truth so pu… When all our fathers worshipp’d st… Forget not: in thy book record the…
When I consider how my light is s… Ere half my days, in this dark wor… And that one Talent which is deat… Lodged with me useless, though my… To serve therewith my Maker, and…
Lawrence, of virtuous father virtu… Now that the fields are dank, and… Where shall we sometimes meet, and… Help waste a sullen day; what may… From the hard season gaining? Tim…
Cyriack, whose grandsire on the ro… Of British Themis, with no mean a… Pronounced, and in his volumes tau… Which others at their bar so often… Today deep thoughts resolve with m…
Cyriack, this three years’ day the… To outward view of blemish or of s… Bereft of light, their seeing have… Nor to their idle orbs doth sight… Of sun or moon or star throughout…
Methought I saw my late espoused… Brought to me like Alcestis from… Whom Jove’s great son to her glad… Rescued from Death by force, thou… Mine, as whom washed from spot of…
