All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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