Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
ABRAHAM COWLEYVain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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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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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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 monster London laugh at me.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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