To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe present is an eternal now.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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