I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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