The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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The present is an eternal now.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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