God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCoy 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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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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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