Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
ABRAHAM COWLEYIt was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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