A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAwake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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