Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEYMay I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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