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... Heaven ! On the head of a stag : O fertile head ! which every year Could such a crop of wonder bear ! The teeming Earth did never bring So soon , so hard , so huge a thing : Which might it never have been cast , Each year's growth added ...
... Heaven ! On the head of a stag : O fertile head ! which every year Could such a crop of wonder bear ! The teeming Earth did never bring So soon , so hard , so huge a thing : Which might it never have been cast , Each year's growth added ...
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... heaven - born law , To strike a faithless age with conscious awe : In choice of friends by manly reason sway'd ; Not fear'd , but honour'd , and with love obey'd . In courts and camps , in council and retreat , Wise , brave , and ...
... heaven - born law , To strike a faithless age with conscious awe : In choice of friends by manly reason sway'd ; Not fear'd , but honour'd , and with love obey'd . In courts and camps , in council and retreat , Wise , brave , and ...
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... barge ' twixt tide and winds , And like effect of their contention finds . Yet the bold Britons still securely row'd ; Charles and his virtue was their sacred load ; Than which a greater pledge Heaven could not give , 74 WALLER .
... barge ' twixt tide and winds , And like effect of their contention finds . Yet the bold Britons still securely row'd ; Charles and his virtue was their sacred load ; Than which a greater pledge Heaven could not give , 74 WALLER .
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Including Translations ... British poets. Than which a greater pledge Heaven could not give , That the good boat this tempest should outlive . But storms increase , and now no hope of grace Among them shines , save in the Prince's face ...
Including Translations ... British poets. Than which a greater pledge Heaven could not give , That the good boat this tempest should outlive . But storms increase , and now no hope of grace Among them shines , save in the Prince's face ...
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... Heaven , our joy , supported by a line ! Which for that instant was Heaven's care above , The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove , On which the fabric of our world depends , One link dissolved , the whole creation ends . ON HIS ...
... Heaven , our joy , supported by a line ! Which for that instant was Heaven's care above , The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove , On which the fabric of our world depends , One link dissolved , the whole creation ends . ON HIS ...
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admire amazed Amoret appear arms beauty bless'd blood bold born boughs bounty brave breast bright CANTO Chloris Clarendon clouds command commission of array COUNTESS OF CARLISLE courage court Cromwell crown'd dame death delight divine doth Earl of Portland earth EDMUND WALLER eyes fair fame fancy fate favour fear fierce fire flame foes friends give Gloriana glory grace grow hand happy heart Heaven honour hope Jove King LADY Laomedon light live Lord Lord Conway Lucretius mind mortal Muse never noble nobler numbers nymph o'er once Orpheus Panegyric Parliament passion peace Phoebus poem poet poetry praise princes Queen rage reign royal rude Sacharissa sacred shine ship sing smile song soul sweet sword taught tempest thee Theseus Thetis things thou thought tree tremble triumph Twas Venus verse vex'd virtue Waller wind wonder wound youth
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Page 108 - ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done.
Page 48 - Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.
Page 196 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.
Page 48 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel, the imagination ; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already.
Page 29 - But combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those, who have long practised perfidy, grow faithless to each other.
Page 137 - From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, where they rise, they set.
Page 133 - Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received our yoke.
Page 36 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented...
Page 207 - The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But, confounded with thy art, Inquires her name that has his heart.
Page 135 - Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges' sides : The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At once victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize.