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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe present is an eternal now.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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