Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEYPoets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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