When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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