The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...J. Sharpe, 1806 |
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... happy toil , The marble breathes , and softens with your smile ! Proud to receive the form , by fate design'd The fairest model of the fairer kind . VOL . I. C But hear , O hear the Muse's heavenly voice ! DEDICATION . 21.
... happy toil , The marble breathes , and softens with your smile ! Proud to receive the form , by fate design'd The fairest model of the fairer kind . VOL . I. C But hear , O hear the Muse's heavenly voice ! DEDICATION . 21.
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... happy whom the Greeks had quell'd In honourable fight : our hero , set In a small shallop , Fortune in his debt , So near a hope of crowns and sceptres , more Than ever Priam , when he flourish'd , wore ; His loins yet full of ungot ...
... happy whom the Greeks had quell'd In honourable fight : our hero , set In a small shallop , Fortune in his debt , So near a hope of crowns and sceptres , more Than ever Priam , when he flourish'd , wore ; His loins yet full of ungot ...
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... happy isle , Mov'd with the ruin of so brave a pile , This work of cost and piety begun , To be accomplish'd by his glorious son , Who all that came within the ample thought Of his wise sire has to perfection brought ; He , like Amphion ...
... happy isle , Mov'd with the ruin of so brave a pile , This work of cost and piety begun , To be accomplish'd by his glorious son , Who all that came within the ample thought Of his wise sire has to perfection brought ; He , like Amphion ...
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... happy , she From all that may infringe delight is free : Love at her royal feet his quiver lays , And not his mother with more haste obeys . Such real pleasure , such true joys dispense , What dream can I present to recompense ? Should ...
... happy , she From all that may infringe delight is free : Love at her royal feet his quiver lays , And not his mother with more haste obeys . Such real pleasure , such true joys dispense , What dream can I present to recompense ? Should ...
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... happy womb she blest , Mov'd with just grief , expostulates with Heav'n , Urging the promise to the ' obsequious giv❜n , Of longer life ; for ne'er was pious soul More apt to ' obey , more worthy to control . A skilful eye at once ...
... happy womb she blest , Mov'd with just grief , expostulates with Heav'n , Urging the promise to the ' obsequious giv❜n , Of longer life ; for ne'er was pious soul More apt to ' obey , more worthy to control . A skilful eye at once ...
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admire Æneas Amoret arms beauty blest blood bold born bounty brave breast bright CANTO charms Chloris clouds command confin'd COUNTESS OF CARLISLE courage court crown'd dame death delight divine doth Duke Earl Earl of Clarendon's English eyes fair fame fancy fate fear fierce fire flame fleet foes friends fury give Gloriana glorious glory grac'd grace hand happy hath heart Heav'n honour hope Jove King Charles lady Lady Anne Hyde Laomedon light live Lord Lord Roscommon Lucretius lute MAID'S TRAGEDY matchless mind mortals Muse noble nobler numbers nymph o'er once passion peace Phoebus plac'd poem poets pow'r praise pride princes Queen rage royal rude Sacharissa's sacred shade shine ship sing song soul sweet sword taught tempest thee Theseus Thetis things thou thought tremble triumph Venus verse vex'd victorious virtue Waller wind wonder wound youth
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Page 59 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done.
Page 68 - Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 151 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 137 - Falkland, a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war than that single loss, i" must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Page 68 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 122 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Page 90 - From hence he does that antique Pile behold, Where Royal heads receive the sacred gold; It gives them Crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep Making the circle of their Reign complete, 95 Those Suns of Empire, where they rise they set...
Page 64 - IT is not that I love yon less, Than when before your feet I lay ; But to prevent the sad increase Of hopeless love, I keep away. In vain, alas ! for every thing, Which I have known belong to you, Your form does to my fancy bring, And makes my old wounds bleed anew.
Page 88 - Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges' sides : The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At once victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize.
Page 44 - While with a strong and yet a gentle hand, You bridle faction, and our hearts command, Protect us from ourselves, and from the foe, Make us unite, and make us conquer too; Let partial spirits still aloud complain, Think themselves injured that they cannot reign, And own no liberty but where they may Without control upon their fellows prey.