I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
ABRAHAM COWLEYMay I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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