Hence loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnight born… In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and… Find out some uncouth cell,

Qual in colle aspro, al imbrunir di sera L’avezza giovinetta pastorella Va bagnando l’herbetta strana e bella Che mal si spande a disusata spera Fuor di sua natia alma primavera,

IT was the Winter wilde, While the Heav’n-born-childe,    All meanly wrapt in the rude manger l… Nature in aw to him Had doff’t her gawdy trim,

Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that na… If rightly thou art called, whose voice… Following, above the Olympian hill I so… Above the flight of Pegasean wing! The meaning, not the name, I call: for…

Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors… If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from… He can requite thee, for he knows the ch…

Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keep Give ear in time of need, Who leadest like a flock of sheep Thy loved Josephs seed, That sitt’st between the Cherubs bright

Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet rema… At Jordan with the Baptist, and had see… Him whom they heard so late expressly ca… Jesus Messiah, Son of God, declared, And on that high authority had believed,

Thy Land to favour graciously Thou hast not Lord been slack, Thou hast from hard Captivity Returned Jacob back. Th’ iniquity thou didst forgive

Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous so… Now that the fields are dank, and ways a… Where shall we sometimes meet, and by th… Help waste a sullen day; what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will…

A Book was writ of late call’d Tetracho… And wov’n close, both matter, form and s… The Subject new: it walk’d the Town a w… Numbring good intellects; now seldom por… Cries the stall-reader, bless us! what a…

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of… Stol’n on his wing my three—and—twentiet… My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom she… Perhaps my semblance might deceive the t…

OH how comely it is and how reviving To the Spirits of just men long opprest… When God into the hands of thir deliver… Puts invincible might To quell the mighty of the Earth, th’ o…

Samson. A little onward lend thy guidin… To these dark steps, a little further on… For yonder bank hath choice of sun or sh… There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil…

This rich Marble doth enterr The honour’d Wife of Winchester, A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir, Besides what her vertues fair Added to her noble birth,