There 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!
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy 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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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