Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFor the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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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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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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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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