To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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!
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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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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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