[ { "title": "The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C.", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze,", "Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise;", "So Man, declining alwayes, disappears.", "In the Weak Circles of increasing Years;", "And his short Tumults of themselves Compose,", "While flowing Time above his Head does close.", "Cromwell alone with greater Vigour runs,", "(Sun-like) the Stages of succeeding Suns:", "And still the Day which he doth next restore,", "Is the just Wonder of the Day before.", "Cromwell alone doth with new Lustre spring,", "And shines the Jewel of the yearly Ring.", "'Tis he the force of scatter'd Time contracts,", "And in one Year the Work of Ages acts:", "While heavy Monarchs make a wide Return,", "Longer, and more Malignant then Saturn:", "And though they all Platonique years should raign,", "In the same Posture would be found again.", "Their earthly Projects under ground they lay,", "More slow and brittle then the China clay:", "Well may they strive to leave them to their Son,", "For one Thing never was by one King don.", "Yet some more active for a Frontier Town", "Took in by Proxie, beggs a false Renown;", "Another triumphs at the publick Cost,", "And will have Wonn, if he no more have Lost;", "They fight by Others, but in Person wrong,", "And only are against their Subjects strong;", "Their other Wars seem but a feign'd contest,", "This Common Enemy is still opprest;", "If Conquerors, on them they turn their might;", "If Conquered, on them they wreak their Spight:", "They neither build the Temple in their dayes,", "Nor Matter for succeeding Founders raise;", "Nor Sacred Prophecies consult within,", "Much less themselves to perfect them begin,", "No other care they bear of things above,", "But with Astrologers divine, and Jove,", "To know how long their Planet yet Reprives", "From the deserved Fate their guilty lives:", "Thus (Image-like) and useless time they tell,", "And with vain Scepter strike the hourly Bell;", "Nor more contribute to the state of Things,", "Then wooden Heads unto the Viols strings,", "While indefatigable Cromwell hyes,", "And cuts his way still nearer to the Skyes,", "Learning a Musique in the Region clear,", "To tune this lower to that higher Sphere.", "So when Amphion did the Lute command,", "Which the God gave him, with his gentle hand,", "The rougher Stones, unto his Measures hew'd,", "Dans'd up in order from the Quarreys rude;", "This took a Lower, that an Higher place,", "As he the Treble alter'd, or the Base:", "No Note he struck, but a new Story lay'd,", "And the great Work ascended while he play'd.", "The listning Structures he with Wonder ey'd,", "And still new Stopps to various Time apply'd:", "Now through the Strings a Martial rage he throws,", "And joyng streight the Theban Tow'r arose;", "Then as he strokes them with a Touch more sweet,", "The flocking Marbles in a Palace meet;", "But, for he most the graver Notes did try,", "Therefore the Temples rear'd their Columns high:", "Thus, ere he ceas'd, his sacred Lute creates", "Th'harmonious City of the seven Gates.", "Such was that wondrous Order and Consent,", "When Cromwell tun'd the ruling Instrument;", "While tedious Statesmen many years did hack,", "Framing a Liberty that still went back;", "Whose num'rous Gorge could swallow in an hour", "That Island, which the Sea cannot devour:", "Then our Amphion issues out and sings,", "And once he struck, and twice, the pow'rful Strings.", "The Commonwealth then first together came,", "And each one enter'd in the willing Frame;", "All other Matter yields, and may be rul'd;", "But who the Minds of stubborn Men can build?", "No Quarry bears a Stone so hardly wrought,", "Nor with such labour from its Center brought;", "None to be sunk in the Foundation bends,", "Each in the House the highest Place contends,", "And each the Hand that lays him will direct,", "And some fall back upon the Architect;", "Yet all compos'd by his attractive Song,", "Into the Animated City throng.", "The Common-wealth does through their Centers all", "Draw the Circumf'rence of the publique Wall;", "The crossest Spirits here do take their part,", "Fast'ning the Contignation which they thwart;", "And they, whose Nature leads them to divide,", "Uphold, this one, and that the other Side;", "But the most Equal still sustein the Height,", "And they as Pillars keep the Work upright;", "While the resistance of opposed Minds,", "The Fabrick as with Arches stronger binds,", "Which on the Basis of a Senate free,", "Knit by the Roofs Protecting weight agree.", "When for his foot he thus a place had found,", "He hurles e'r since the World about him round,", "And in his sev'ral Aspects, like a Star,", "Here shines in Peace, and thither shoots a War.", "While by his Beams observing Princes steer,", "And wisely court the Influence they fear,", "O would they rather by his Pattern won.", "Kiss the approaching, nor yet angry Son;", "And in their numbred Footsteps humbly tread", "The path where holy Oracles do lead;", "How might they under such a Captain raise", "The great Designs kept for the latter Dayes!", "But mad with reason, so miscall'd, of State", "They know them not, and what they know not, hate", "Hence still they sing Hosanna to the Whore,", "And her whom they should Massacre adore:", "But Indians whom they should convert, subdue;", "Nor teach, but traffique with, or burn the Jew.", "Unhappy Princes, ignorantly bred,", "By Malice some, by Errour more misled;", "If gracious Heaven to my Life give length,", "Leisure to Times, and to my Weakness Strength,", "Then shall I once with graver Accents shake", "Your Regal sloth, and your long Slumbers wake:", "Like the shrill Huntsman that prevents the East,", "Winding his Horn to Kings that chase the Beast.", "Till then my Muse shall hollow far behind", "Angelique Cromwell who outwings the wind;", "And in dark Nights, and in cold Dayes alone", "Pursues the Monster thorough every Throne:", "Which shrinking to her Roman Den impure,", "Gnashes her Goary teeth; nor there secure.", "Hence oft I think, if in some happy Hour", "High Grace should meet in one with highest Pow'r,", "And then a seasonable People still", "Should bend to his, as he to Heavens will,", "What we might hope, what wonderful Effect", "From such a wish'd Conjuncture might reflect.", "Sure, the mysterious Work, where none withstand,", "Would forthwith finish under such a Hand:", "Fore-shortned Time its useless Course would stay,", "And soon precipitate the latest Day.", "But a thick Cloud about that Morning lyes,", "And intercepts the Beams of Mortal eyes,", "That 'tis the most which we deteremine can,", "If these the Times, then this must be the Man.", "And well he therefore does, and well has guest,", "Who in his Age has always forward prest:", "And knowing not where Heavens choice may light,", "Girds yet his Sword, and ready stands to fight;", "But Men alas, as if they nothing car'd,", "Look on, all unconcern'd, or unprepar'd;", "And Stars still fall, and still the Dragons Tail", "Swinges the Volumes of its horrid Flail.", "For the great Justice that did first suspend", "The World by Sin, does by the same extend.", "Hence that blest Day still counterpoysed wastes,", "The ill delaying, what th'Elected hastes;", "Hence landing Nature to new Seas it tost,", "And good Designes still with their Authors lost.", "And thou, great Cromwell, for whose happy birth", "A Mold was chosen out of better Earth;", "Whose Saint-like Mother we did lately see", "Live out an Age, long as a Pedigree;", "That she might seem, could we the Fall dispute,", "T'have smelt the Blossome, and not eat the Fruit;", "Though none does of more lasting Parents grow,", "But never any did them Honor so;", "Though thou thine Heart from Evil still unstain'd,", "And always hast thy Tongue from fraud refrain'd,", "Thou, who so oft through Storms of thundring Lead", "Hast born securely thine undaunted Head,", "Thy Brest through ponyarding Conspiracies,", "Drawn from the Sheath of lying Prophecies;", "Thee proof beyond all other Force or Skill,", "Our Sins endanger, and shall one day kill.", "How near they fail'd, and in thy sudden Fall", "At once assay'd to overturn us all.", "Our brutish fury strugling to be Free,", "Hurry'd thy Horses while they hurry'd thee.", "When thou hadst almost quit thy Mortal cares,", "And soyl'd in Dust thy Crown of silver Hairs.", "Let this one Sorrow interweave among", "The other Glories of our yearly Song.", "Like skilful Looms which through the costly threed", "Of purling Ore, a shining wave do shed:", "So shall the Tears we on past Grief employ,", "Still as they trickle, glitter in our Joy.", "So with more Modesty we may be True,", "And speak as of the Dead the Praises due:", "While impious Men deceiv'd with pleasure short,", "On their own Hopes shall find the Fall retort.", "But the poor Beasts wanting their noble Guide,", "What could they move? shrunk guiltily aside.", "First winged Fear transports them far away,", "And leaden Sorrow then their flight did stay.", "See how they each his towring Crest abate,", "And the green Grass, and their known Mangers hate,", "Nor through wide Nostrils snuffe the wanton air,", "Nor their round Hoofs, or curled Mane'scompare;", "With wandring Eyes, and restless Ears theystood,", "And with shrill Neighings ask'd him of the Wood.", "Thou Cromwell falling, not a stupid Tree,", "Or Rock so savage, but it mourn'd for thee:", "And all about was heard a Panique groan,", "As if that Natures self were overthrown.", "It seem'd the Earth did from the Center tear;", "It seem'd the Sun was faln out of the Sphere:", "Justice obstructed lay, and Reason fool'd;", "Courage disheartned, and Religion cool'd.", "A dismal Silence through the Palace went,", "And then loud Shreeks the vaulted Marbles rent.", "Such as the dying Chorus sings by turns,", "And to deaf Seas, and ruthless Tempests mourns,", "When now they sink, and now the plundring Streams", "Break up each Deck, and rip the Oaken seams.", "But thee triumphant hence the firy Carr,", "And firy Steeds had born out of the Warr,", "From the low World, and thankless Men above,", "Unto the Kingdom blest of Peace and Love:", "We only mourn'd our selves, in thine Ascent,", "Whom thou hadst lest beneath with Mantle rent.", "For all delight of Life thou then didst lose,", "When to Command, thou didst thy self Depose;", "Resigning up thy Privacy so dear,", "To turn the headstrong Peoples Charioteer;", "For to be Cromwell was a greater thing,", "Then ought below, or yet above a King:", "Therefore thou rather didst thy Self depress,", "Yielding to Rule, because it made thee Less.", "For, neither didst thou from the first apply", "Thy sober Spirit unto things too High,", "But in thine own Fields exercisedst long,", "An Healthful Mind within a Body strong;", "Till at the Seventh time thou in the Skyes,", "As a small Cloud, like a Mans hand didst rise;", "Then did thick Mists and Winds the air deform,", "And down at last thou pow'rdst the fertile Storm;", "Which to the thirsty Land did plenty bring,", "But though forewarn'd, o'r-took and wet the King.", "What since he did, an higher Force him push'd", "Still from behind, and it before him rush'd,", "Though undiscern'd among the tumult blind,", "Who think those high Decrees by Man design'd.", "'Twas Heav'n would not that his Pow'r should cease,", "But walk still middle betwixt War and Peace;", "Choosing each Stone, and poysing every weight,", "Trying the Measures of the Bredth and Height;", "Here pulling down, and there erecting New,", "Founding a firm State by Proportions true.", "When Gideon so did from the War retreat,", "Yet by Conquest of two Kings grown great,", "He on the Peace extends a Warlike power,", "And Is'rel silent saw him rase the Tow'r;", "And how he Succoths Elders durst suppress,", "With Thorns and Briars of the Wilderness.", "No King might ever such a Force have done;", "Yet would not he be Lord, nor yet his Son.", "Thou with the same strength, and an Heart as plain,", "Didst (like thine Olive) still refuse to Reign;", "Though why should others all thy Labor spoil,", "And Brambles be anointed with thine Oyl,", "Whose climbing Flame, without a timely stop,", "Had quickly Levell'd every Cedar's top.", "Therefore first growing to thy self a Law,", "Th'ambitious Shrubs thou in just time didst aw.", "So have I seen at Sea, when whirling Winds,", "Hurry the Bark, but more the Seamens minds,", "Who with mistaken Course salute the Sand,", "And threat'ning Rocks misapprehend for Land;", "While baleful Tritons to the shipwrack guide.", "And Corposants along the Tacklings slide.", "The Passengers all wearyed out before,", "Giddy, and wishing for the fatal Shore;", "Some lusty Mate, who with more careful Eye", "Counted the Hours, and ev'ry Star did spy,", "The Helm does from the artless Steersman strain,", "And doubles back unto the safer Main.", "What though a while they grumble discontent,", "Saving himself he does their loss prevent.", "'Tis not a Freedome, that where All command;", "Nor Tyranny, where One does them withstand:", "But who of both the Bounders knows to lay", "Him as their Father must the State obey.", "Thou, and thine House, like Noah's Eight did rest,", "Left by the Wars Flood on the Mountains crest:", "And the large Vale lay subject to thy Will,", "Which thou but as an Husbandman would Till:", "And only didst for others plant the Vine", "Of Liberty, not drunken with its Wine.", "That sober Liberty which men may have,", "That they enjoy, but more they vainly crave:", "And such as to their Parents Tents do press,", "May shew their own, not see his Nakedness.", "Yet such a Chammish issue still does rage,", "The Shame and Plague both of the Land and Age,", "Who watch'd thy halting, and thy Fall deride,", "Rejoycing when thy Foot had slipt aside;", "that their new King might the fifth Scepter shake,", "And make the World, by his Example, Quake:", "Whose frantique Army should they want for Men", "Might muster Heresies, so one were ten.", "What thy Misfortune, they the Spirit call,", "And their Religion only is to Fall.", "Oh Mahomet! now couldst thou rise again,", "Thy Falling-sickness should have made thee Reign,", "While Feake and Simpson would in many a Tome,", "Have writ the Comments of thy sacred Foame:", "For soon thou mightst have past among their Rant", "Wer't but for thine unmoved Tulipant;", "As thou must needs have own'd them of thy band", "For prophecies fit to be Alcorand.", "Accursed Locusts, whom your King does spit", "Out of the Center of th'unbottom'd Pit;", "Wand'rers, Adult'rers, Lyers, Munser's rest,", "Sorcerers, Atheists, Jesuites, Possest;", "You who the Scriptures and the Laws deface", "With the same liberty as Points and Lace;", "Oh Race most hypocritically strict!", "Bent to reduce us to the ancient Pict;", "Well may you act the Adam and the Eve;", "Ay, and the Serpent too that did deceive.", "But the great Captain, now the danger's ore,", "Makes you for his sake Tremble one fit more;", "And, to your spight, returning yet alive", "Does with himself all that is good revive.", "So when first Man did through the Morning new", "See the bright Sun his shining Race pursue,", "All day he follow'd with unwearied sight,", "Pleas'd with that other World of moving Light;", "But thought him when he miss'd his setting beams,", "Sunk in the Hills, or plung'd below the Streams.", "While dismal blacks hung round the Universe,", "And Stars (like Tapers) burn'd upon his Herse:", "And Owls and Ravens with their screeching noyse", "Did make the Fun'rals sadder by their Joyes.", "His weeping Eyes the doleful Vigils keep,", "Not knowing yet the Night was made for sleep:", "Still to the West, where he him lost, he turn'd,", "And with such accents, as Despairing, mourn'd:", "Why did mine Eyes once see so bright a Ray;", "Or why Day last no longer than a Day?", "When streight the Sun behind him he descry'd,", "Smiling serenely from the further side.", "So while our Star that gives us Light and Heat,", "Seem'd now a long and gloomy Night to threat,", "Up from the other World his Flame he darts,", "And Princes shining through their windows starts;", "Who their suspected Counsellors refuse,", "And credulous Ambassadors accuse.", "\"Is this, saith one, the Nation that we read", "\"Spent with both Wars, under a Captain dead?", "\"Yet rig a Navy while we dress us late;", "\"And ere we Dine, rase and rebuild our State.", "\"What Oaken Forrests, and what golden Mines!", "\"What Mints of Men, what Union of Designes!", "\"Unless their Ships, do, as their Fowle proceed", "\"Of shedding Leaves, that with their Ocean breed.", "\"Theirs are not Ships, but rather Arks of War,", "\"And beaked Promontories sail'd from far;", "\"Of floting Islands a new Hatched Nest;", "\"A Fleet of Worlds, of other Worlds in quest;", "\"An hideous shole of wood Leviathans,", "\"Arm'd with three Tire of brazen Hurricans;", "\"That through the Center shoot their thundring side", "\"And sink the Earth that does at Anchor ride.", "'What refuge to escape them can be found,", "\"Whose watry Leaguers all the world surround?", "\"Needs must we all their Tributaries be,", "\"Whose Navies hold the Sluces of the Sea.", "\"The Ocean is the Fountain of Command,", "\"But that once took, we Captives are on Land:", "\"And those that have the Waters for their share,", "\"Can quickly leave us neither Earth nor Air.", "\"Yet if through these our Fears could find a pass;", "\"Through double Oak, & lin'd with treble Brass;", "\"That one Man still, although but nam'd, alarms", "\"More then all Men, all Navies, and all Arms.", "\"Him, all the Day, Him, in late Nights I dread,", "\"And still his Sword seems hanging o're my head.", "\"The Nation had been ours, but his one Soul", "\"Moves the great Bulk, and animates the whole.", "\"He Secrecy with Number hath inchas'd,", "\"Courage with Age, Maturity with Hast:", "\"The Valiants Terror, Riddle of the Wise;", "\"And still his Fauchion all our Knots unties.", "\"Where did he learn those Arts that cost us dear?", "\"Where below Earth, or where above the Sphere?", "\"He seems a King by long Succession born,", "\"And yet the same to be a King does scorn.", "\"Abroad a King he seems, and something more,", "\"At Home a Subject on the equal Floor.", "\"O could I once him with our Title see,", "\"So should I hope yet he might Dye as wee.", "\"But let them write his Praise that love him best,", "\"It grieves me sore to have thus much confest.", "\"Pardon, great Prince, if thus their Fear or Spight", "\"More then our Love and Duty do thee Right.", "\"I yield, nor further will the Prize contend;", "\"So that we both alike may miss our End:", "\"While thou thy venerable Head dost raise", "\"As far above their Malice as my Praise.", "\"And as the Angel of our Commonweal,", "\"Troubling the Waters, yearly mak'st them Heal." ], "linecount": "402" }, { "title": "The Character Of Holland", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land,", "As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand;", "And so much Earth as was contributed", "By English Pilots when they heav'd the Lead;", "Or what by th' Oceans slow alluvion fell,", "Of shipwrackt Cockle and the Muscle-shell;", "This indigested vomit of the Sea", "Fell to the Dutch by just Propriety.", "Glad then, as Miners that have found the Oar,", "They with mad labour fish'd the Land to Shoar;", "And div'd as desperately for each piece", "Of Earth, as if't had been of Ambergreece;", "Collecting anxiously small Loads of Clay,", "Less then what building Swallows bear away;", "Transfursing into them their Dunghil Soul.", "How did they rivet, with Gigantick Piles,", "Thorough the Center their new-catched Miles;", "And to the stake a strugling Country bound,", "Where barking Waves still bait the forced Ground;", "Building their watry Babel far more high", "To reach the Sea, then those to scale the Sky.", "Yet still his claim the Injur'd Ocean laid,", "And oft at Leap-frog ore their Steeples plaid:", "As if on purpose it on Land had come", "To shew them what's their Mare Liberum.", "A daily deluge over them does boyl;", "The Earth and Water play at Level-coyl;", "The Fish oft-times the Burger dispossest,", "And sat not as a Meat but as a Guest;", "And oft the Tritons and the Sea-Nymphs saw", "Whole sholes of Dutch serv'd up for Cabillan;", "Or as they over the new Level rang'd", "For pickled Herring, pickled Heeren chang'd.", "Nature, it seem'd, asham'd of her mistake,", "Would throw their land away at Duck and Drake.", "Therefore Necessity, that first made Kings,", "Something like Government among them brings.", "For as with Pygmees who best kills the Crane,", "Among the hungry he that treasures Grain,", "Among the blind the one-ey'd blinkard reigns,", "So rules among the drowned he that draines.", "Not who first see the rising Sun commands,", "But who could first discern the rising Lands.", "Who best could know to pump an Earth so leak", "Him they their Lord and Country's Father speak.", "To make a Bank was a great Plot of State;", "Invent a Shov'l and be a Magistrate.", "Hence some small Dyke-grave unperceiv'd invades", "The Pow'r, and grows as 'twere a King of Spades.", "But for less envy some Joynt States endures,", "Who look like a Commission of the Sewers.", "For these Half-anders, half wet, and half dry,", "Nor bear strict service, nor pure Liberty.", "'Tis probable Religion after this", "Came next in order; which they could not miss.", "How could the Dutch but be converted, when", "Th' Apostles were so many Fishermen?", "Besides the Waters of themselves did rise,", "And, as their Land, so them did re-baptise.", "Though Herring for their God few voices mist,", "And Poor-John to have been th' Evangelist.", "Faith, that could never Twins conceive before,", "Never so fertile, spawn'd upon this shore:", "More pregnant then their Marg'ret, that laid down", "For Hans-in-Kelder of a whole Hans-Town.", "Sure when Religion did it self imbark,", "And from the east would Westward steer its Ark,", "It struck, and splitting on this unknown ground,", "Each one thence pillag'd the first piece he found:", "Hence Amsterdam, Turk-Christian-Pagan-Jew,", "Staple of Sects and Mint of Schisme grew;", "That Bank of Conscience, where not one so strange", "Opinion but finds Credit, and Exchange.", "In vain for Catholicks our selves we bear;", "The Universal Church is onely there.", "Nor can Civility there want for Tillage,", "Where wisely for their Court they chose a Village.", "How fit a Title clothes their Governours,", "Themselves the Hogs as all their Subjects Bores", "Let it suffice to give their Country Fame", "That it had one Civilis call'd by Name,", "Some Fifteen hundred and more years ago,", "But surely never any that was so.", "See but their Mairmaids with their Tails of Fish,", "Reeking at Church over the Chafing-Dish.", "A vestal Turf enshrin'd in Earthen Ware", "Fumes through the loop-holes of wooden Square.", "Each to the Temple with these Altars tend,", "But still does place it at her Western End:", "While the fat steam of Female Sacrifice", "Fills the Priests Nostrils and puts out his Eyes.", "Or what a Spectacle the Skipper gross,", "A Water-Hercules Butter-Coloss,", "Tunn'd up with all their sev'ral Towns of Beer;", "When Stagg'ring upon some Land, Snick and Sneer,", "They try, like Statuaries, if they can,", "Cut out each others Athos to a Man:", "And carve in their large Bodies, where they please,", "The Armes of the United Provinces.", "But when such Amity at home is show'd;", "What then are their confederacies abroad?", "Let this one court'sie witness all the rest;", "When their hole Navy they together prest,", "Not Christian Captives to redeem from Bands:", "Or intercept the Western golden Sands:", "No, but all ancient Rights and Leagues must vail,", "Rather then to the English strike their sail;", "to whom their weather-beaten Province ows", "It self, when as some greater Vessal tows", "A Cock-boat tost with the same wind and fate;", "We buoy'd so often up their Sinking State.", "Was this Jus Belli & Pacis; could this be", "Cause why their Burgomaster of the Sea", "Ram'd with Gun-powder, flaming with Brand wine,", "Should raging hold his Linstock to the Mine?", "While, with feign'd Treaties, they invade by stealth", "Our sore new circumcised Common wealth.", "Yet of his vain Attempt no more he sees", "Then of Case-Butter shot and Bullet-Cheese.", "And the torn Navy stagger'd with him home,", "While the Sea laught it self into a foam,", "'Tis true since that (as fortune kindly sports,)", "A wholesome Danger drove us to our ports.", "While half their banish'd keels the Tempest tost,", "Half bound at home in Prison to the frost:", "That ours mean time at leisure might careen,", "In a calm Winter, under Skies Serene.", "As the obsequious Air and waters rest,", "Till the dear Halcyon hatch out all its nest.", "The Common wealth doth by its losses grow;", "And, like its own Seas, only Ebbs to flow.", "Besides that very Agitation laves,", "And purges out the corruptible waves.", "And now again our armed Bucentore", "Doth yearly their Sea-Nuptials restore.", "And how the Hydra of seaven Provinces", "Is strangled by our Infant Hercules.", "Their Tortoise wants its vainly stretched neck;", "Their Navy all our Conquest or our Wreck:", "Or, what is left, their Carthage overcome", "Would render fain unto our better Rome.", "Unless our Senate, lest their Youth disuse,", "The War, (but who would) Peace if begg'd refuse.", "For now of nothing may our State despair,", "Darling of Heaven, and of Men the Care;", "Provided that they be what they have been,", "Watchful abroad, and honest still within.", "For while our Neptune doth a Trident shake, Blake,", "Steel'd with those piercing Heads, Dean, Monck and", "And while Jove governs in the highest Sphere,", "Vainly in Hell let Pluto domineer." ], "linecount": "151" }, { "title": "Tom May's Death", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "As one put drunk into the Packet-boat,", "Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't.", "But was amaz'd on the Elysian side,", "And with an Eye uncertain, gazing wide,", "Could not determine in what place he was,", "For whence in Stevens ally Trees or Grass.", "Nor where the Popes head, nor the Mitre lay,", "Signs by which still he found and lost his way.", "At last while doubtfully he all compares,", "He saw near hand, as he imagin'd Ares.", "Such did he seem for corpulence and port,", "But 'twas a man much of another sort;", "'Twas Ben that in the dusky Laurel shade", "Amongst the Chorus of old Poets laid,", "Sounding of ancient Heroes, such as were", "The Subjects Safety, and the Rebel's Fear.", "But how a double headed Vulture Eats,", "Brutus and Cassius the Peoples cheats.", "But seeing May he varied streight his song,", "Gently to signifie that he was wrong.", "Cups more then civil of Emilthian wine,", "I sing (said he) and the Pharsalian Sign,", "Where the Historian of the Common-wealth", "In his own Bowels sheath'd the conquering health.", "By this May to himself and them was come,", "He found he was tranflated, and by whom.", "Yet then with foot as stumbling as his tongue", "Prest for his place among the Learned throng.", "But Ben, who knew not neither foe nor friend,", "Sworn Enemy to all that do pretend,", "Rose more then ever he was seen severe,", "Shook his gray locks, and his own Bayes did tear", "At this intrusion. Then with Laurel wand,", "The awful Sign of his supream command.", "At whose dread Whisk Virgil himself does quake,", "And Horace patiently its stroke does take,", "As he crowds in he whipt him ore the pate", "Like Pembroke at the Masque, and then did rate.", "Far from these blessed shades tread back agen", "Most servil' wit, and Mercenary Pen.", "Polydore, Lucan, Allan, Vandale, Goth,", "Malignant Poet and Historian both.", "Go seek the novice Statesmen, and obtrude", "On them some Romane cast similitude,", "Tell them of Liberty, the Stories fine,", "Until you all grow Consuls in your wine.", "Or thou Dictator of the glass bestow", "On him the Cato, this the Cicero.", "Transferring old Rome hither in your talk,", "As Bethlem's House did to Loretto walk.", "Foul Architect that hadst not Eye to see", "How ill the measures of these States agree.", "And who by Romes example England lay,", "Those but to Lucan do continue May.", "But the nor Ignorance nor seeming good", "Misled, but malice fixt and understood.", "Because some one than thee more worthy weares", "The sacred Laurel, hence are all these teares?", "Must therefore all the World be set on flame,", "Because a Gazet writer mist his aim?", "And for a Tankard-bearing Muse must we", "As for the Basket Guelphs and Gibellines be?", "When the Sword glitters ore the Judges head,", "And fear has Coward Churchmen silenced,", "Then is the Poets time, 'tis then he drawes,", "And single fights forsaken Vertues cause.", "He, when the wheel of Empire, whirleth back,", "And though the World disjointed Axel crack,", "Sings still of ancient Rights and better Times,", "Seeks wretched good, arraigns successful Crimes.", "But thou base man first prostituted hast", "Our spotless knowledge and the studies chast.", "Apostatizing from our Arts and us,", "To turn the Chronicler to Spartacus.", "Yet wast thou taken hence with equal fate,", "Before thou couldst great Charles his death relate.", "But what will deeper wound thy little mind,", "Hast left surviving Davenant still behind", "Who laughs to see in this thy death renew'd,", "Right Romane poverty and gratitude.", "Poor Poet thou, and grateful Senate they,", "Who thy last Reckoning did so largely pay.", "And with the publick gravity would come,", "When thou hadst drunk thy last to lead thee home.", "If that can be thy home where Spencer lyes", "And reverend Chaucer, but their dust does rise", "Against thee, and expels thee from their side,", "As th' Eagles Plumes from other birds divide.", "Nor here thy shade must dwell, Return, Return,", "Where Sulphrey Phlegeton does ever burn.", "The Cerberus with all his Jawes shall gnash,", "Megera thee with all her Serpents lash.", "Thou rivited unto Ixion's wheel", "Shalt break, and the perpetual Vulture feel.", "'Tis just what Torments Poets ere did feign,", "Thou first Historically shouldst sustain.", "Thus by irrevocable Sentence cast,", "May only Master of these Revels past.", "And streight he vanisht in a Cloud of Pitch,", "Such as unto the Sabboth bears the Witch." ], "linecount": "100" }, { "title": "The Picture Of Little T.C. In A Prospect Of Flowers", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "See with what simplicity", "This Nimph begins her golden daies!", "In the green Grass she loves to lie,", "And there with her fair Aspect tames", "The Wilder flow'rs, and gives them names:", "But only with the Roses playes;", "And them does tell", "What Colour best becomes them, and what Smell.", "", "Who can foretel for what high cause", "This Darling of the Gods was born!", "Yet this is She whose chaster Laws", "The wanton Love shall one day fear,", "And, under her command severe,", "See his Bow broke and Ensigns torn.", "Happy, who can", "Appease this virtuous Enemy of Man!", "", "O then let me in time compound,", "And parly with those conquering Eyes;", "Ere they have try'd their force to wound,", "Ere, with their glancing wheels, they drive", "In Triumph over Hearts that strive,", "And them that yield but more despise.", "Let me be laid,", "Where I may see thy Glories from some Shade.", "", "Mean time, whilst every verdant thing", "It self does at thy Beauty charm,", "Reform the errours of the Spring;", "Make that the Tulips may have share", "Of sweetness, seeing they are fair;", "And Roses of their thorns disarm:", "But most procure", "That Violets may a longer Age endure.", "", "But O young beauty of the Woods,", "Whom Nature courts with fruits and flow'rs,", "Gather the Flow'rs, but spare the Buds;", "Lest Flora angry at thy crime,", "To kill her Infants in their prime,", "Do quickly make th' Example Yours;", "And, ere we see,", "Nip in the blossome all our hopes and Thee." ], "linecount": "40" }, { "title": "Music's Empire", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "First was the world as one great cymbal made,", "Where jarring winds to infant Nature played.", "All music was a solitary sound,", "To hollow rocks and murm'ring fountains bound.", "", "Jubal first made the wilder notes agree;", "And Jubal tuned music's Jubilee;", "He call'd the echoes from their sullen cell,", "And built the organ's city where they dwell.", "", "Each sought a consort in that lovely place,", "And virgin trebles wed the manly bass.", "From whence the progeny of numbers new", "Into harmonious colonies withdrew.", "", "Some to the lute, some to the viol went,", "And others chose the cornet eloquent,", "These practicing the wind, and those the wire,", "To sing men's triumphs, or in Heaven's choir.", "", "Then music, the mosaic of the air,", "Did of all these a solemn noise prepare;", "With which she gain'd the empire of the ear,", "Including all between the earth and sphere.", "", "Victorious sounds! yet here your homage do", "Unto a gentler conqueror than you;", "Who though he flies the music of his praise,", "Would with you Heaven's Hallelujahs raise." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "The Death of Cromwell", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector", "", "That Providence which had so long the care", "Of Cromwell's head, and numbered every hair,", "Now in itself (the glass where all appears)", "Had seen the period of his golden years:", "And thenceforh only did attend to trace", "What death might least so fair a life deface.", "", "The people, which what most they fear esteem,", "Death when more horrid, so more noble deem,", "And blame the last act, like spectators vain,", "Unless the prince whom they applaud be slain.", "Nor fate indeed can well refuse that right", "To those that lived in war, to die in fight.", "", "But long his valour none had left that could", "Endanger him, or clemency that would.", "And he whom Nature all for peace had made,", "But angry heaven unto war had swayed,", "And so less useful where he most desired,", "For what he least affected was admired,", "Deservиd yet an end whose every part,", "Should speak the wondrous softness of his heart.", "", "To Love and Grief the fatal writ was 'signed;", "(Those nobler weaknesses of human kind,", "From which those powers that issued the decree,", "Although immortal, found they were not free),", "That they, to whom his breast still open lies,", "In gentle passions should his death disguise:", "And leave succeeding ages cause to mourn,", "As long as Grief shall weep, or Love shall burn.", "", "Straight does a slow and languishing disease", "Eliza, Nature's and his darling, seize.", "Her when an infant, taken with her charms,", "He oft would flourish in his mighty arms,", "And, lest their force the tender burden wrong,", "Slacken the vigour of his muscles strong;", "Then to the Mother's breast her softly move,", "Which while she drained of milk, she filled with love.", "But as with riper years her virtue grew,", "And every minute adds a lustre new,", "When with meridian height her beauty shined,", "And thorough that sparkled her fairer mind,", "When she with smiles serene in words discreet", "His hidden soul at ever turn could meet;", "Then might y'ha' daily his affection spied,", "Doubling that knot which destiny had tied,", "While they by sense, not knowing, comprehend", "How on each other both their fates depend.", "With her each day the pleasing hours he shares,", "And at her aspect calms his growing cares;", "Or with a grandsire's joy her children sees", "Hanging about her neck or at his knees.", "Hold fast, dear infants, hold them both or none;", "This will not stay when once the other's gone.", "", "A silent fire now wastes those limbs of wax,", "And him within his tortured image racks.", "So the flower withering which the garden crowned,", "The sad root pines in secret under ground.", "Each groan he doubled and each sigh he sighed,", "Repeated over to the restless night.", "No trembling string composed to numbers new,", "Answers the touch in notes more sad, more true.", "She, lest he grieve, hides what she can her pains,", "And he to lessen hers his sorrow feigns:", "Yet both perceived, yet both concealed their skills,", "And so diminishing increased their ills:", "That whether by each other's grief they fell,", "Or on their own redoubled, none can tell.", "", "And now Eliza's purple locks were shorn,", "Where she so long her Father's fate had worn:", "And frequent lightning to her soul that flies,", "Divides the air, and opens all the skies:", "And now his life, suspended by her breath,", "Ran out impetuously to hasting death.", "Like polished mirrors, so his steely breast", "Had every figure of her woes expressed,", "And with the damp of her last gasp obscured,", "Had drawn such stains as were not to be cured.", "Fate could not either reach with single stroke,", "But the dear image fled, the mirror broke.", "", "Who now shall tell us more of mournful swans,", "Of halcyons kind, or bleeding pelicans?", "No downy breast did e'er so gently beat,", "Or fan with airy plumes so soft an heat.", "For he no duty by his height excused,", "Nor, though a prince, to be a man refused:", "But rather than in his Eliza's pain", "Not love, not grieve, would neither live nor reign:", "And in himself so oft immortal tried,", "Yet in compassion of another died.", "", "So have I seen a vine, whose lasting age", "Of many a winter hath survived the rage,", "Under whose shady tent men every year", "At its rich blood's expense their sorrow cheer,", "If some dear branch where it extends its life", "Chance to be pruned by an untimely knife,", "The parent-tree unto the grief succeeds,", "And through the wound its vital humour bleeds,", "Trickling in watery drops, whose flowing shape", "Weeps that it falls ere fixed into a grape.", "So the dry stock, no more that spreading vine,", "Frustrates the autumn and the hopes of wine.", "", "A secret cause does sure those signs ordain", "Foreboding princes' falls, and seldom vain.", "Whether some kinder powers that wish us well,", "What they above cannot prevent foretell;", "Or the great world do by consent presage,", "As hollow seas with future tempests rage;", "Or rather heaven, which us so long foresees,", "Their funerals celebrates while it decrees.", "But never yet was any human fate", "By Nature solemnized with so much state.", "He unconcerned the dreadful passage crossed;", "But, oh, what pangs that death did Nature cost!", "", "First the great thunder was shot off, and sent", "The signal from the starry battlement.", "The winds receive it, and its force outdo,", "As practising how they could thunder too;", "Out of the binder's hand the sheaves they tore,", "And thrashed the harvest in the airy floor;", "Or of huge trees, whose growth with his did rise,", "The deep foundations opened to the skies.", "Then heavy show'rs the wingиd tempests lead,", "And pour the deluge o'er the chaos' head.", "The race of warlike horses at his tomb", "Offer themselves in many a hecatomb;", "With pensive head towards the ground they fall,", "And helpless languish at the tainted stall.", "Numbers of men decrease with pains unknown,", "And hasten, not to see his death, their own.", "Such tortures all the elements unfixed,", "Troubled to part where so exactly mixed.", "And as through air his wasting spirits flowed,", "The universe laboured beneath their load.", "", "Nature, it seemed with him would Nature vie;", "He with Eliza. It with him would die,", "He without noise still travelled to his end,", "As silent suns to meet the night descend.", "The stars that for him fought had only power", "Left to determine now his final hour,", "Which, since they might not hinder, yet they cast", "To choose it worthy of his glories past.", "", "No part of time but bare his mark away", "Of honour; all the year was Cromwell's day:", "But this, of all the most ausicious found,", "Twice had in open field him victor crowned:", "When up the armиd mountains of Dunbar", "He marched, and through deep Severn ending war.", "What day should him eternize but the same", "That had before immortalized his name?", "That so who ere would at his death have joyed,", "In their own griefs might find themselves employed;", "But those that sadly his departure grieved,", "Yet joyed, remebering what he once achieved.", "And the last minute his victorious ghost", "Gave chase to Ligny on the Belgic coast.", "Here ended all his mortal toils: he laid", "And slept in place under the laurel shade.", "", "O Cromwell, Heaven's Favourite! To none", "Have such high honours from above been shown:", "For whom the elements we mourners see,", "And heaven itself would the great herald be,", "Which with more care set forth his obsequies", "Than those of Moses hid from human eyes,", "As jealous only here lest all be less,", "That we could to his memory express.", "Then let us to our course of mourning keep:", "Where heaven leads, 'tis piety to weep.", "Stand back, ye seas, and shrunk beneath the veil", "Of your abyss, with covered head bewail", "Your Monarch: we demand not your supplies", "To compass in our isle; our tears suffice:", "Since him away the dismal tempest rent,", "Who once more joined us to the continent;", "Who planted England on the Flandric shore,", "And stretched our frontier to the Indian ore;", "Whose greater truths obscure the fables old,", "Whether of British saints or Worthies told;", "And in a valour lessening Arthur's deeds,", "For holiness the Confessor exceeds.", "", "He first put arms into Religion's hand,", "And timorous Conscience unto Courage manned:", "The soldier taught that inward mail to wear,", "And fearing God how they should nothing fear.", "`Those strokes,' he said, `will pierce through all below", "Where those that strike from heaven fetch their blow.'", "Astonished armies did their flight prepare,", "And cities strong were stormиd by his prayer;", "Of that, forever Preston's field shall tell", "The story, and impregnable Clonmel.", "And where the sandy mountain Fenwick scaled,", "The sea between, yet hence his prayer prevailed.", "What man was ever so in heaven obeyed", "Since the commanded sun o'er Gideon stayed?", "In all his wars needs must he triumph when", "He conquered God still ere he fought with men:", "", "Hence, though in battle none so brave or fierce,", "Yet him the adverse steel could never pierce.", "Pity it seemed to hurt him more that felt", "Each wound himself which he to others dealt;", "Danger itself refusing to offend", "So loose an enemy, so fast a friend.", "", "Friendship, that sacred virtue, long does claim", "The first foundation of his house and name:", "But within one its narrow limits fall,", "His tenderness extended unto all.", "And that deep soul through every channel flows,", "Where kindly nature loves itself to lose.", "More strong affections never reason served,", "Yet still affected most what best deserved.", "If he Eliza loved to that degree,", "(Though who more worthy to be loved than she?)", "If so indulgent to his own, how dear", "To him the children of the highest were?", "For her he once did nature's tribute pay:", "For these his life adventured every day:", "And 'twould be found, could we his thoughts have cast,", "Their griefs struck deepest, if Eliza's last.", "", "What prudence more than human did he need", "To keep so dear, so differing minds agreed?", "The worser sort, as conscious of their ill,", "Lie weak and easy to the ruler's will;", "But to the good (too many or too few)", "All law is useless, all reward is due.", "Oh ill-advised, if not for love, for shame,", "Spare yet your own, if you neglect his fame;", "Lest others dare to think your zeal a mask,", "And you to govern, only heaven's task.", "", "Valour, religion, friendship, prudence died", "At once with him, and all that's good beside;", "And we death's refuse, nature's dregs, confined", "To loathsome life, alas! are left behind.", "Where we (so once we used) shall now no more", "To fetch the day, press about his chamber door--", "From which he issued with that awful state,", "It seemd Mars broke through Janus' double gate,", "Yet always tempered with an air so mild,", "No April suns that e'er so gently smiled--", "No more shall hear that powerful language charm,", "Whose force oft spared the labour of his arm:", "No more shall follow where he spent the days", "In war, in counsel, or in prayer and praise,", "Whose meanest acts he would himself advance,", "As ungirt David to the ark did dance.", "All, all is gone of our or his delight", "In horses fierce, wild deer, or armour bright;", "Francisca fair can nothing now but weep,", "Nor with soft notes shall sing his cares asleep.", "", "I saw him dead. A leaden slumber lies", "And mortal sleep over those wakeful eyes:", "Those gentle rays under the lids were fled,", "Which through his looks that piercing sweetness shed;", "That port which so majestic was and strong,", "Loose and deprived of vigour, stretched along:", "All withered, all discoloured, pale and wan--", "How much another thing, nor more that man?", "Oh human glory vain, oh death, oh wings,", "Oh worthless world, oh transitory things!", "", "Yet dwelt that greatnesss in his shape decayed,", "That still through dead, greater than death he laid:", "And in his altered face you something feign", "That threatens death he yet will live again.", "", "Not much unlike the sacred oak which shoots", "To heaven its branches and through earth its roots,", "Whose spacious bought are hung with trophies round,", "And honoured wreaths have oft the victor crowned.", "When angry Jove darts lightning through the air,", "At mortals' sins, nor his own plant will spare,", "(It groans, and bruises all below, that stood", "So many years the shelter of the wood.)", "The tree erewhile foreshortened to our view,", "When fall'n shows taller yet than as it grew:", "", "So shall his praise to after times increase,", "When truth shall be allowed, and faction cease,", "And his own shadows with him fall. The eye", "Detracts from object than itself more high:", "But when death takes them from that envied seat,", "Seeing how little, we confess how great.", "", "Thee, many ages hence in martial verse", "Shall the English soldier, ere he charge, rehearse,", "Singing of thee, inflame themselves to fight,", "And with the name of Cromwell, armies fright.", "As long as rivers to the seas shall run,", "As long as Cynthia shall relieve the sun,", "While stags shall fly unto the firests thick,", "While sheep delight the grassy downs to pick,", "As long as future times succeeds the past,", "Always they honour, praise, and name shall last.", "", "Thou in a pitch how far beyond the sphere", "Of human glory tower'st, and reigning there", "Despoiled of mortal robes, in seas of bliss,", "Plunging dost bathe, and tread the bright abyss:", "There thy great soul yet once a world does see,", "Spacious enough, and pure enough for thee.", "How soon thou Moses hast, and Joshua found,", "And David for the sword and harp renowned?", "How straight canst to each happy mansion go?", "(Far better known above than here below)", "And in those joys dost spend the endless day,", "Which in expressing we ourselves betray.", "", "For we, since thou art gone, with heavy doom,", "Wander like ghosts about thy lovиd tomb;", "And lost in tears, have neither sight nor mind", "To guide us upward through this region blind.", "Since thou art gone, who best that way couldst teach,", "Only our sighs, perhaps, may thither reach.", "", "And Richard yet, where his great parent led,", "Beats on the rugged track: he, virtue dead,", "Revives, and by his milder beams assures;", "And yet how much of them his grief obscures?", "", "He, as his father, long was kept from sight", "In private, to be viewed by better light;", "But opened once, what splendour does he throw?", "A Cromwell in an hour a prince will grow.", "How he becomes that seat, how strongly strains,", "How gently winds at once the ruling reins?", "Heaven to this choice prepared a diadem,", "Richer than any Easter silk or gem;", "A pearly rainbow, where the sun enchased", "His brows, like an imperial jewel graced.", "", "We find already what those omens mean,", "Earth ne'er more glad, nor heaven more serene.", "Cease now our griefs, calm peace succeeds a war,", "Rainbows to storms, Richard to Oliver.", "Tempt not his clemency to try his power,", "He threats no deluge, yet foretells a shower." ], "linecount": "325" }, { "title": "A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C.", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "That Providence which had so long the care", "Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair,", "Now in its self (the Glass where all appears)", "Had seen the period of his golden Years:", "And thenceforth onely did attend to trace,", "What death might least so sair a Life deface.", "The People, which what most they fear esteem,", "Death when more horrid so more noble deem;", "And blame the last Act, like Spectators vain,", "Unless the Prince whom they applaud be slain.", "Nor Fate indeed can well refuse that right", "To those that liv'd in War, to dye in Fight.", "But long his Valour none had left that could", "Indanger him, or Clemency that would.", "And he whom Nature all for Peace had made,", "But angry Heaven unto War had sway'd,", "And so less useful where he most desir'd,", "For what he least affected was admir'd,", "Deserved yet an End whose ev'ry part", "Should speak the wondrous softness of his Heart.", "To Love and Grief the fatal Writ was sign'd;", "(Those nobler weaknesses of humane Mind,", "From which those Powers that issu'd the Decree,", "Although immortal, found they were not free.)", "That they, to whom his Breast still open lyes,", "In gentle Passions should his Death disguise:", "And leave succeeding Ages cause to mourn,", "As long as Grief shall weep, or Love shall burn.", "Streight does a slow and languishing Disease", "Eliza, Natures and his darling, seize.", "Her when an infant, taken with her Charms,", "He oft would flourish in his mighty Arms;", "And, lest their force the tender burthen wrong,", "Slacken the vigour of his Muscles strong;", "Then to the Mothers brest her softly move,", "Which while she drain'd of Milk she fill'd with Love:", "But as with riper Years her Virtue grew,", "And ev'ry minute adds a Lustre new;", "When with meridian height her Beauty shin'd,", "And thorough that sparkled her fairer Mind;", "When She with Smiles serene and Words discreet", "His hidden Soul at ev'ry turn could meet;", "Then might y' ha' daily his Affection spy'd,", "Doubling that knot which Destiny had ty'd:", "While they by sence, not knowing, comprehend", "How on each other both their Fates depend.", "With her each day the pleasing Hours he shares,", "And at her Aspect calms her growing Cares;", "Or with a Grandsire's joy her Children sees", "Hanging about her neck or at his knees.", "Hold fast dear Infants, hold them both or none;", "This will not stay when once the other's gone.", "A silent fire now wasts those Limbs of Wax,", "And him with his tortur'd Image racks.", "So the Flowr with'ring which the Garden crown'd,", "The sad Root pines in secret under ground.", "Each Groan he doubled and each Sigh he sigh'd,", "Repeated over to the restless Night.", "No trembling String compos'd to numbers new,", "Answers the touch in Notes more sad more true.", "She lest He grieve hides what She can her pains,", "And He to lessen hers his Sorrow feigns:", "Yet both perceiv'd, yet both conceal'd their Skills,", "And so diminishing increast their ills:", "That whether by each others grief they fell,", "Or on their own redoubled, none can tell.", "And now Eliza's purple Locks were shorn,", "Where she so long her Fathers fate had worn:", "And frequent lightning to her Soul that flyes,", "Devides the Air, and opens all the Skyes:", "And now his Life, suspended by her breath,", "Ran out impetuously to hasting Death.", "Like polish'd Mirrours, so his steely Brest", "Had ev'ry figure of her woes exprest;", "And with the damp of her last Gasps obscur'd,", "Had drawn such staines as were not to be cur'd.", "Fate could not either reach with single stroke,", "But the dear Image fled the Mirrour broke.", "Who now shall tell us more of mournful Swans,", "Of Halcyons kind, or bleeding Pelicans?", "No downy breast did ere so gently beat,", "Or fan with airy plumes so soft an heat.", "For he no duty by his height excus'd,", "Nor though a Prince to be a Man refus'd:", "But rather then in his Eliza's pain", "Not love, not grieve, would neither live nor reign.", "And in himself so oft immortal try'd,", "Yet in compassion of another dy'd.", "So have I seen a Vine, whose lasting Age", "Of many a Winter hath surviv'd the rage.", "Under whose shady tent Men ev'ry year", "At its rich bloods expence their Sorrows chear,", "If some dear branch where it extends its life", "Chance to be prun'd by an untimely knife,", "The Parent-Tree unto the Grief succeeds,", "And through the Wound its vital humour bleeds;", "Trickling in watry drops, whose flowing shape", "Weeps that it falls ere fix'd into a Grape.", "So the dry Stock, no more that spreading Vine,", "Frustrates the Autumn and the hopes of Wine.", "A secret Cause does sure those Signs ordain", "Fore boding Princes falls, and seldom vain.", "Whether some Kinder Pow'rs, that wish us well,", "What they above cannot prevent, foretell;", "Or the great World do by consent presage,", "As hollow Seas with future Tempests rage:", "Or rather Heav'n, which us so long fore sees,", "Their fun'rals celebrate while it decrees.", "But never yet was any humane Fate", "By nature solemniz'd with so much state.", "He unconcern'd the dreadful passage crost;", "But oh what pangs that Death did Nature cost!", "First the great Thunder was shot off, and sent", "The Signal from the starry Battlement.", "The Winds receive it, and its force out-do,", "As practising how they could thunder too:", "Out of the Binders Hand the Sheaves they tore,", "And thrash'd the Harvest in the airy floore;", "Or of huge Trees, whose growth with his did rise,", "The deep foundations open'd to the Skyes.", "Then heavy Showres the winged Tempests dead,", "And pour the Deluge ore the Chaos head.", "The Race of warlike Horses at his Tomb", "Offer themselves in many an Hecatomb;", "With pensive head towards the ground they fall,", "And helpless languish at the tainted Stall.", "Numbers of Men decrease with pains unknown,", "And hasten not to see his Death their own.", "Such Tortures all the Elements unfix'd,", "Troubled to part where so exactly mix'd.", "And as through Air his wasting Spirits flow'd,", "The Universe labour'd beneath their load.", "Nature it seem'd with him would Nature vye;", "He with Eliza, It with him would dye.", "He without noise still travell'd to his End,", "As silent Suns to meet the Night descend.", "The Stars that for him fought had only pow'r", "Left to determine now his fatal Hour,", "Which, since they might not hinder, yet they cast", "To chuse it worthy of his Glories past.", "No part of time but bore his mark away", "Of honour; all the Year was Cromwell's day", "But this, of all the most auspicious found,", "Twice had in open field him Victor crown'd", "When up the armed Mountains of Dunbar", "He march'd, and through deep Severn ending war.", "What day should him eternize but the same", "That had before immortaliz'd his Name?", "That so who ere would at his Death have joy'd,", "In their own Griefs might find themselves imploy'd;", "But those that sadly his departure griev'd,", "Yet joy'd remembring what he once atcheiv'd.", "And the last minute his victorious Ghost", "Gave chase to Ligny on the Belgick Coast.", "Here ended all his mortal toyles: He lay'd", "And slept in Peace under the Lawrel Shade.", "O Cromwell, Heavens Favourite! To none", "Have such high honours from above been shown:", "For whom the Elements we Mourners see,", "And Heav'n it self would the great Herald be;", "Which with more Care set forth his Obsequies", "Then those of Moses hid from humane Eyes;", "As jealous only here lest all be less,", "That we could to his Memory express.", "Then let us to our course of Mourning keep:", "Where Heaven leads, 'tis Piety to weep.", "Stand back ye Seas, and shrunk beneath the vail", "Of your Abysse, with cover'd Head bewail", "Your Monarch: We demand not your supplies", "To compass in our Isle; our Tears suffice;", "Since him away the dismal Tempest rent,", "Who once more joyn'd us to the Continent;", "Who planted England on the Flandrick shoar,", "And stretch'd our frontire to the Indian Ore;", "Whose greater Truths obscure the Fables old,", "Whether of British Saints or Worthy's told;", "And in a valour less'ning Arthur's deeds,", "For Holyness the Confessor exceeds.", "He first put Armes into Religions hand,", "And tim'rous Conscience unto Courage man'd:", "The Souldier taught that inward Mail to wear,", "And fearing God how they should nothing fear.", "Those Strokes he said will pierce through all below", "Where those that strike from Heaven fetch their Blow.", "", "Note: The remainder is supplied from Ms Eng.poet.d.49", "Astonish'd armyes did their flight prepare:", "And Cityes strong were stormed by his prayer.", "Of that for ever Prestons field shall tell", "The Story, and impregnable Clonmell.", "And where the sandy mountain Fenwick scald", "The Sea between yet henee his pray'r prevail'd.", "What man was ever so in Heav'n obey'd", "Since the commanded Sun ore Gibeon stayd.", "In all his warrs needs must he triumph, when", "He conquer'd God still ere he fought with men.", "Hence though in battle none so brave or fierce", "Yet him the adverse steel could never pierce:", "Pitty it seem'd to hurt him more that felt", "Each wound himself which he to others delt,", "Danger it self refusing to offend", "So loose an enemy so fast a freind.", "Friendship that sacred versue long das claime", "The first foundation of his house and name.", "But within one its narrow limitts fall", "His tendernesse extended unto all:", "And that deep soule through every chanell flows", "Where kindly nature loves it self to lose.", "More strong affections never reason serv'd", "Yet still affected most what best deservd.", "If he Eliza lov'd to that degree", "(Though who more worstly to be lov'd then she)", "If so indulgent to his own, how deare", "To him the children of the Highest were?", "For her he once did natures tribute pay:", "For these his life adventur'd every day.", "And it would be found could we his thoughts have", "Their griefs struck deepest if Eliza's last.", "What prudence more then humane did he need", "To keep so deare, so diff'ring mindes agreed?", "The worser sort as conscious of their ill,", "Lye weak and easy to the rulers will:", "But to the good (too many or too few).", "All law is uselesse all reward is due.", "Oh ill advis'd if not for love for shame.", "Spare yet your own if you neglect his fame.", "Least others dare to think your reale a maske", "And you to govern only Heavens taske.", "Valour, Religion, Friendship, Prudence dy'd", "At once with him and all that's good beside:", "And rue deaths refuse natures dreg's confin'd", "To loathsome life Alas are left behinde:", "Where we (so once we us'd) shall now no more", "To fetch day presse about his chamber door;", "From which he issu'd with that awfull state", "It seem'd Mars broke through Janus double gate:", "Yet alwayes temper'd with an Aire so mild", "No Aprill suns that ere so gently smil'd:", "No more shall heare that powerfull language charm.", "Whose force oft spar'd the labour of his arm:", "No more shall follow where he spent the dayes", "In warres in counsell, or in pray'r, and praise,", "Whose meanest acts he would himself advance", "As ungirt David to the Arks did dance.", "All All is gone of ours or his delight", "In horses fierce wild deer or armour bright.", "Francisca faire can nothing now but weep", "Nor with soft notes shall sing his cares asleep.", "I saw him dead, a leaden slumber lyes", "And mortall sleep over those wakefull eys:", "Those gentle Rayes under the lidds were fled", "Which through his lookes that piercing sweetnesse she", "That port which so Majestique was and strong,", "Loose and depriv'd of vigour stretch'd along:", "All wither'd, all discolour'd, pale and wan,", "How much another thing, no more thatman?", "Oh humane glory vaine, Oh death, Oh wings,", "Oh worthlesse worth. Oh transitory things.", "Yet dwelt that greatnesse in his shape decay'd", "That still though dead greater than death he lay'd.", "And in his alter'd face you something faigne", "That threatens death he yet will live againe.", "Not much unlike the saired Oake which shoots", "To heav'n its branches and through earth its roots:", "Whose spacious boughs are hung with Trophees row", "And honour'd wreaths have oft the Victour crown", "When angry Jove darts lightning through the Aire", "At mortalls sins, nor his own plant will spare", "(It groanes and bruses all below that stood", "So many yeares the shelter of the wood)", "The tree ere while foreshorten'd to our view", "When foln shews taller yet then as it grew.", "So shall his praise to after times increase", "When truth shall be allow'd and faction cease.", "And his own shadow with him fall. The Eye", "Detracts from objects then it selfe more high:", "But when death takes them from that envy'd seate", "Seing how little we confesse how greate.", "Thee many ages hence in martiall verse", "Shall th' English souldier ere he charge rehearse:", "Singing of thee influme themselves to fight", "And with the name of Cromwell armyes fright.", "As long as rivers to the seas shall runne.", "As long as Cynthia shall relieve the sunne,", "While staggs shall fly unto the forests thick,", "While sheep delight the grassy downs to pick,", "As long as future time succeeds the past,", "Always thy honour, praise and name shall last.", "Thou in a pitch how farre, beyond the sphere", "Of humane glory towr'st, and raigning there", "Despoyld of mortall robes, in seas of cliyse", "Plunging dost bathe, and tread the bright Abysse:", "There thy greate soule yet once a world das see", "Spacious enough and pure enough for thee.", "How soon thou Moses hast and Josua found", "And David for the Sword, and harpe renown'd?", "How streight canst to each happy Mansion goe?", "(Farr Better known above then here below)", "And in those joyes dost spend the endlesse day", "Which in expressing we our selves betray.", "For we since thou art gone with heavy doome", "Wander like ghosts about thy loved tombe:", "And lost in tears have neither sight nor minde", "To guide us upward through this Region blinde", "Since thou art gone who best that way could'st fearn", "Onely our sighs perhaps may thither reach.", "And Richard yet where his great Parent led", "Beats on the rugged track: He vertue dead", "Revives, and by his milder beams assures;", "And yet how much of them his griefe obscures?", "He as his rather long was kept from sight", "In private to be view'd by better light:", "But open'd once, what splendour dos he throw", "A Cromwell in an houre a Prince will grow.", "How he becomes that seat, how strongly streins", "How gently winds at once the ruling Reins?", "Heav'n to this choise prepar'd a Diadem", "Richer then any Eastern silk or gemme:", "A pearly rainbow; where the Sun inchas'd", "His brows like an Imperiall Jewell grac'd.", "We find already what those Omens mean.", "Earth nere more glad, nor Heaven more serene:", "Cease now our griefs, Calme peace succeeds a war", "Rainbows to storms, Richard to Oliver.", "Tempt not his clemency to try his pow'r", "He threats no Deluge, yet fore tells a showre." ], "linecount": "325" }, { "title": "Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "To the Lord Fairfax.", "", "See how the arched Earth does here", "Rise in a perfect Hemisphere!", "The stiffest Compass could not strike", "A line more circular and like;", "Nor softest Pensel draw a Brow.", "So equal as this Hill does bow.", "It seems as for a Model laid,", "And that the World by it was made.", "", "Here learn ye Mountains more unjust,", "Which to abrupter greatness thrust,", "That do with your hook-shoulder'd height", "The Earth deform and Heaven frght.", "For whose excrescence ill design'd,", "Nature must a new Center find,", "Learn here those humble steps to tread,", "Which to securer Glory lead.", "", "See what a soft access and wide", "Lyes open to its grassy side;", "Nor with the rugged path deterrs", "The feet of breathless Travellers.", "See then how courteous it ascends,", "And all the way ir rises bends;", "Nor for it self the height does gain,", "But only strives to raise the Plain.", "", "Yet thus it all the field commands,", "And in unenvy'd Greatness stands,", "Discerning furthe then the Cliff", "Of Heaven-daring Teneriff.", "How glad the weary Seamen hast", "When they salute it from the Mast!", "By Night the Northern Star their way", "Directs, and this no less by Day.", "", "Upon its crest this Mountain grave", "A Plum of aged Trees does wave.", "No hostile hand durst ere invade", "With impious Steel the sacred Shade.", "For something alwaies did appear", "Of the Great Masters terrour there:", "And Men could hear his Armour still", "Ratling through all the Grove and Hill.", "", "Fear of the Master, and respect", "Of the great Nymph did it protect;", "Vera the Nymph that him inspir'd,", "To whom he often here retir'd,", "And on these Okes ingrav'd her Name;", "Such Wounds alone these Woods became:", "But ere he well the Barks could part", "'Twas writ already in their Heart.", "", "For they ('tis credible) have sense,", "As we, of Love and Reverence,", "And underneath the Courser Rind", "The Genius of the house do bind.", "Hence they successes seem to know,", "And in their Lord's advancement grow;", "But in no Memory were seen", "As under this so streight and green.", "", "Yet now no further strive to shoot,", "Contented if they fix their Root.", "Nor to the winds uncertain gust,", "Their prudent Heads too far intrust.", "Onely sometimes a flutt'ring Breez", "Discourses with the breathing Trees;", "Which in their modest Whispers name", "Those Acts that swell'd the Cheek of Fame.", "", "Much other Groves, say they, then these", "And other Hills him once did please.", "Through Groves of Pikes he thunder'd then,", "And Mountains rais'd of dying Men.", "For all the Civick Garlands due", "To him our Branches are but few.", "Nor are our Trunks enow to bear", "The Trophees of one fertile Year.", "", "'Tis true, the Trees nor ever spoke", "More certain Oracles in Oak.", "But Peace (if you his favour prize)", "That Courage its own Praises flies.", "Therefore to your obscurer Seats", "From his own Brightness he retreats:", "Nor he the Hills without the Groves,", "Nor Height but with Retirement loves." ], "linecount": "81" }, { "title": "First Anniversary", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,", "Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,", "So Man, declining always, disappears", "In the weak circles of increasing years;", "And his short tumults of themselves compose,", "While flowing Time above his head does close.", "", "Cromwell alone with greater vigour runs,", "(Sun-like) the stages of succeeding suns:", "And still the day which he doth next restore,", "Is the just wonder of the day before.", "Cromwell alone doth with new lustre spring,", "And shines the jewel of the yearly ring.", "", "'Tis he the force of scattered time contracts,", "And in one year the work of ages acts:", "While heavy monarchs make a wide return,", "Longer, and more malignant than Saturn:", "And though they all Platonic years should reign,", "In the same posture would be found again.", "Their earthy projects under ground they lay,", "More slow and brittle than the China clay:", "Well may they strive to leave them to their son,", "For one thing never was by one king done.", "Yet some more active for a frontier town,", "Taken by proxy, beg a false renown;", "Another triumphs at the public cost,", "And will have won, if he no more have lost;", "They fight by others, but in person wrong,", "And only are against their subjects strong;", "Their other wars seem but a feigned contиst,", "This common enemy is still oppressed;", "If conquerors, on them they turn their might;", "If conquered, on them they wreak their spite:", "They neither build the temple in their days,", "Nor matter for succeeding founders raise;", "Nor sacred prophecies consult within,", "Much less themself to pиfect them begin;", "No other care they bear of things above,", "But with astrologers divine of Jove", "To know how long their planet yet reprieves", "From the deservйd fate their guilty lives:", "Thus (image-like) an useless time they tell,", "And with vain sceptre strike the hourly bell,", "Nor more contribute to the state of things,", "Than wooden heads unto the viol's strings.", "", "While indefatigable Cromwell hies,", "And cuts his way still nearer to the skies,", "Learning a music in the region clear,", "To tune this lower to that higher sphere.", "", "So when Amphion did the lute command,", "Which the god gave him, with his gentle hand,", "The rougher stones, unto his measures hewed,", "Danced up in order from the quarries rude;", "This took a lower, that an higher place,", "As he the treble altered, or the bass:", "No note he struck, but a new stone was laid,", "And the great work ascended while he played.", "", "The listening structures he with wonder eyed,", "And still new stops to various time applied:", "Now through the strings a martial rage he throws,", "And joining straight the Theban tower arose;", "Then as he strokes them with a touch more sweet,", "The flocking marbles in a palace meet;", "But for the most the graver notes did try,", "Therefore the temples reared their columns high:", "Thus, ere he ceased, his sacred lute creates", "Th' harmonious city of the seven gates.", "", "Such was that wondrous order and consent,", "When Cromwell tuned the ruling Instrument,", "While tedious statesmen many years did hack,", "Framing a liberty that still went back,", "Whose numerous gorge could swallow in an hour", "That island, which the sea cannot devour:", "Then our Amphion issued out and sings,", "And once he struck, and twice, the powerful strings.", "", "The Commonwealth then first together came,", "And each one entered in the willing frame;", "All other matter yields, and may be ruled;", "But who the minds of stubborn men can build?", "No quarry bears a stone so hardly wrought,", "Nor with such labour from its centre brought;", "None to be sunk in the foundation bends,", "Each in the house the highest place contends,", "And each the hand that lays him will direct,", "And some fall back upon the architect;", "Yet all composed by his attractive song,", "Into the animated city throng.", "", "The Commonwealth does through their centres all", "Draw the circumference of the public wall;", "The crossest spirits here do take their part,", "Fastening the contignation which they thwart;", "And they, whose nature leads them to divide,", "Uphold this one, and that the other side;", "But the most equal still sustain the height,", "And they as pillars keep the work upright,", "While the resistance of opposиd minds,", "The fabric (as with arches) stronger binds,", "Which on the basis of a senate free,", "Knit by the roof's protecting weight, agree.", "", "When for his foot he thus a place had found,", "He hurls e'er since the world about him round,", "And in his several aspects, like a star,", "Here shines in peace, and thither shoots in war,", "While by his beams observing princes steer,", "And wisely court the influence they fear.", "O would they rather by his pattern won", "Kiss the approaching, not yet angry Son;", "And in their numbered footsteps humbly tread", "The path where holy oracles do lead;", "How might they under such a captain raise", "The great designs kept for the latter days!", "But mad with reason (so miscalled) of state", "They know them not, and what they know not, hate.", "Hence still they sing hosanna to the whore,", "And her, whom they should massacre, adore:", "But Indians, whom they would convert, subdue;", "Nor teach, but traffic with, or burn the Jew.", "", "Unhappy princes, ignorantly bred,", "By malice some, by error more misled,", "If gracious heaven to my life give length,", "Leisure to time, and to my weaknes strength,", "Then shall I once with graver accents shake", "Your regal sloth, and your long slumbers wake:", "Like the shrill huntsman that prevents the east,", "Winding his horn to kings that chase the beast.", "", "Till then my muse shall hollo far behind", "Angelic Cromwell who outwings the wind,", "And in dark nights, and in cold days alone", "Pursues the monster through every throne:", "Which shrinking to her Roman den impure,", "Gnashes her gory teeth; nor there secure.", "", "Hence oft I think if in some happy hour", "High grace should meet in one with highest power,", "And then a seasonable people still", "Should bend to his, as he to heaven's will,", "What we might hope, what wonderful effect", "From such a wished conjuncture might reflect.", "Sure, the mysterious work, where none withstand,", "Would forthwith finish under such a hand:", "Foreshortened time its useless course would stay,", "And soon precipitate the latest day.", "But a thick cloud about that morning lies,", "And intercepts the beams of mortal eyes,", "That 'tis the most which we determine can,", "If these the times, then this must be the man.", "And well he therefore does, and well has guessed,", "Who in his age has always forward pressed:", "And knowing not where heaven's choice may light,", "Girds yet his sword, and ready stand to fight;", "But men, alas, as if they nothing cared,", "Look on, all unconcerned, or unprepared;", "And stars still fall, and still the dragon's tail", "Swinges the volumes of its horrid flail.", "For the great justice that did first suspend", "The world by sin, does by the same extend.", "Hence that blest day still counterposиd wastes,", "The ill delaying what the elected hastes;", "Hence landing nature to new seas is tossed,", "And good designs still with their authors lost.", "", "And thou, great Cromwell, for whose happy birth", "A mould was chosen out of better earth;", "Whose saint-like mother we did lately see", "Live out an age, long as a pedigree;", "That she might seem (could we the Fall dispute),", "T' have smelled the blossom, and not eat the fruit;", "Though none does of more lasting parents grow,", "Yet never any did them honour so,", "Though thou thine heart from evil still unstained,", "And always hast thy tongue from fraud refrained;", "Thou, who so oft through storms of thundering lead", "Hast born securely thine undaunted head,", "Thy breast through poniarding conspiracies,", "Drawn from the sheath of lying prophecies;", "Thee proof behond all other force or skill,", "Our sins endanger, and shall one day kill.", "", "How near they failed, and in thy sudden fall", "At once assayed to overturn us all.", "Our brutish fury struggling to be free,", "Hurried thy horses while they hurried thee,", "When thou hadst almost quit thy mortal cares,", "And soiled in dust thy crown of silver hairs.", "", "Let this one sorrow interweave among", "The other glories of our yearly song.", "Like skilful looms, which through the costly thread", "Of purling ore, a shining wave do shed:", "So shall the tears we on past grief employ,", "Still as they trickle, glitter in our joy.", "So with more modesty we may be true,", "And speak, as of the dead, the praises due:", "While impious men deceived with pleasure short,", "On their own hopes shall find the fall retort.", "", "But the poor beasts, wanting their noble guide,", "(What could they more?) shrunk guiltily aside.", "First wingиd fear transports them far away,", "And leaden sorrow then their flight did stay.", "See how they each his towering crest abate,", "And the green grass, and their known mangers hate,", "Nor through wide nostrils snuff the wanton air,", "Nor their round hoofs, or curlиd manes compare;", "With wandering eyes, and restless ears they stood,", "And with shrill neighings asked him of the wood.", "", "Thou, Cromwell, falling, not a stupid tree,", "Or rock so savage, but it mourned for thee:", "And all about was heard a panic groan,", "As if that Nature's self were overthrown.", "It seemed the earth did from the centre tear;", "It seemed the sun was fall'n out of the sphere:", "Justice obstructed lay, and reason fooled;", "Courage disheartened, and religion cooled.", "A dismal silence through the palace went,", "And then loud shrieks the vaulted marbles rent,", "Such as the dying chorus sings by turns,", "And to deaf seas, and ruthless tempests mourns,", "When now they sink, and now the plundering streams", "Break up each deck, and rip the oaken seams.", "", "But thee triumphant hence the fiery car,", "And fiery steeds had borne out of the war,", "From the low world, and thankless men above,", "Unto the kingdom blest of peace and love:", "We only mourned ourselves, in thine ascent,", "Whom thou hadst left beneath with mantle rent.", "", "For all delight of life thou then didst lose,", "When to command, thou didst thyself dispose;", "Resigning up thy privacy so dear,", "To turn the headstrong people's charioteer;", "For to be Cromwell was a greater thing,", "Then ought below, or yet above a king:", "Therefore thou rather didst thyself depress,", "Yielding to rule, because it made thee less.", "", "For neither didst thou from the first apply", "Thy sober spirit unto things too high,", "But in thine own fields exercised'st long,", "An healthful mind within a body strong;", "Till at the seventh time thou in the skies,", "As a small cloud, like a man's hand, didst rise;", "Then did thick mists and winds the air deform,", "And down at last thou poured'st the fertile storm,", "Which to the thirsty land did plenty bring,", "But, though forewarned, o'ertook and wet the King.", "", "What since he did, an higher force him pushed", "Still from behind, and yet before him rushed,", "Though undiscerned among the tumult blind,", "Who think those high decrees by man designed.", "'Twas heaven would not that his power should cease,", "But walk still middle betwixt war and peace:", "Choosing each stone, and poising every weight,", "Trying the measures of the breadth and height;", "Here pulling down, and there erecting new,", "Founding a firm state by proportions true.", "", "When Gideon so did from the war retreat,", "Yet by the conquest of two kings grown great,", "He on the peace extends a warlike power,", "And Israel silent saw him raze the tower;", "And how he Succorth's Elders durst suppress,", "With thorns and briars of the wilderness.", "No king might ever such a force have done;", "Yet would not he be Lord, nor yet his son.", "", "Thou with the same strength, and an heart as plain,", "Didst (like thine olive) still refuse to reign,", "Though why should others all thy labour spoil,", "And brambles be anointed with thine oil,", "Whose climbing flame, without a timely stop,", "Had quickly levelled every cedar's top?", "Therefore first growing to thyself a law,", "Th' ambitious shrubs thou in just time didst awe.", "", "So have I seen at sea, when whirling winds,", "Hurry the bark, but more the seamen's minds,", "Who with mistaken course salute the sand,", "And threatening rocks misapprehend for land,", "While baleful Tritons to the shipwreck guide,", "And corposants along the tackling slide,", "The passengers all wearied out before,", "Giddy, and wishing for the fatal shore,", "Some lusty mate, who with more careful eye", "Counted the hours, and every star did spy,", "The help does from the artless steersman strain,", "And doubles back unto the safer main.", "What though a while they grumble discontent,", "Saving himself, he does their loss prevent.", "", "'Tis not a freedom, that where all command;", "Nor tyranny, where one does them withstand:", "But who of both the bounder knows to lay", "Him as their father must the state obey.", "", "Thou, and thine house (like Noah's eight) did rest,", "Left by the wars' flood on the mountains' crest:", "And the large vale lay subject to thy will", "Which thou but as an husbandman wouldst till:", "And only didst for others plant the vine", "Of liberty, not drunken with its wine.", "", "That sober liberty which men may have,", "That they enjoy, but more they vainly crave:", "And such as to their parents' tents do press,", "May show their own, not see his nakedness.", "", "Yet such a Chammish issue still does rage,", "The shame and plague both of the land and age,", "Who watched thy halting, and thy fall deride,", "Rejoicing when thy foot had slipped aside,", "That their new king might the fifth sceptre shake,", "And make the world, by his example, quake:", "Whose frantic army should they want for men", "Might muster heresies, so one were ten.", "What thy misfortune, they the spirit call,", "And their religion only is to fall.", "Oh Mahomet! now couldst thou rise again,", "Thy falling-sickness should have made thee reign,", "While Feake and Simpson would in many a tome,", "Have writ the comments of thy sacred foam:", "For soon thou mightst have passed among their rant", "Were't but for thine unmovиd tulipant;", "As thou must needs have owned them of thy band", "For prophecies fit to be Alcoraned.", "", "Accursиd locusts, whom your king does spit", "Out of the centre of the unbottomed pit;", "Wanderers, adulterers, liars, Munster's rest,", "Sorcerers, athiests, jesuits possessed;", "You who the scriptures and the laws deface", "With the same liberty as points and lace;", "Oh race most hypocritically strict!", "Bent to reduce us to the ancient Pict;", "Well may you act the Adam and the Eve;", "Ay, and the serpent too that did deceive.", "", "But the great captain, now the danger's o'er,", "Makes you for his sake tremble one fit more;", "And, to your spite, returning yet alive", "Does with himself all that is good revive.", "", "So when first man did through the morning new", "See the bright sun his shining race pursue,", "All day he followed with unwearied sight,", "Pleased with that other world of moving light;", "But thought him when he missed his setting beams,", "Sunk in the hills, or plunged below the streams.", "While dismal blacks hung round the universe,", "And stars (like tapers) burned upon his hearse:", "And owls and ravens with their screeching noise", "Did make the funerals sadder by their joys.", "His weeping eyes the doleful vigils keep,", "Not knowing yet the night was made for sleep;", "Still to the west, where he him lost, he turned,", "And with such accents as despairing mourned:", "`Why did mine eyes once see so bright a ray;", "Or why day last no longer than a day?'", "When straight the sun behind him he descried,", "Smiling serenely from the further side.", "", "So while our star that gives us light and heat,", "Seemed now a long and gloomy night to threat,", "Up from the other world his flame he darts,", "And princes (shining through their windows) starts,", "Who their suspected counsellors refuse,", "And credulous ambassadors accuse.", "", "`Is this', saith one, `the nation that we read", "Spent with both wars, under a captain dead,", "Yet rig a navy while we dress us late,", "And ere we dine, raze and rebuild their state?", "What oaken forests, and what golden mines!", "What mints of men, what union of designs!", "(Unless their ships, do, as their fowl proceed", "Of shedding leaves, that with their ocean breed).", "Theirs are not ships, but rather arks of war", "And beakиd promontories sailed from far;", "Of floating islands a new hatchиd nest;", "A fleet of worlds, of other worlds in quest;", "An hideous shoal of wood-leviathans,", "Armed with three tier of brazen hurricanes,", "That through the centre shoot their thundering side", "And sink the earth that does at anchor ride.", "What refuge to escape them can be found,", "Whose watery leaguers all the world surround?", "Needs must we all their tributaries be,", "Whose navies hold the sluices of the sea.", "The ocean is the fountain of command,", "But that once took, we captives are on land.", "And those that have the waters for their share,", "Can quickly leave us neither earth nor air.", "Yet if through these our fears could find a pass,", "Through double oak, and lined with treble brass,", "That one man still, although but named, alarms", "More than all men, all navies, and all arms.", "Him, in the day, him, in late night I dread,", "And still his sword seems hanging o'er my head.", "The nation had been ours, but his one soul", "Moves the great bulk, and animates the whole.", "He secrecy with number hath enchased,", "Courage with age, maturity with haste:", "The valiant's terror, riddle of the wise,", "And still his falchion all our knots unties.", "Where did he learn those arts that cost us dear?", "Where below earth, or where above the sphere?", "He seems a king by long succession born,", "And yet the same to be a king does scorn.", "Abroad a king he seems, and something more,", "At home a subject on the equal floor.", "O could I once him with our title see,", "So should I hope that he might die as we.", "But let them write is praise that love him best,", "It grieves me sore to have thus much confessed.'", "", "Pardon, great Prince, if thus their fear of spite", "More than our love and duty do thee right.", "I yield, nor further will the prize contend,", "So that we both alike may miss our end:", "While thou thy venerable head dost raise", "As far above their malice as my praise,", "And as the Angel of our commonweal,", "Troubling the waters, yearly mak'st them heal." ], "linecount": "402" }, { "title": "Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "lines": [ "Within this sober Frame expect", "Work of no Forrain Architect;", "That unto Caves the Quarries drew,", "And Forrests did to Pastures hew;", "Who of his great Design in pain", "Did for a Model vault his Brain,", "Whose Columnes should so high be rais'd", "To arch the Brows that on them gaz'd.", "", "Why should of all things Man unrul'd", "Such unproportion'd dwellings build?", "The Beasts are by their Denns exprest:", "And Birds contrive an equal Nest;", "The low roof'd Tortoises do dwell", "In cases fit of Tortoise-shell:", "No Creature loves an empty space;", "Their Bodies measure out their Place.", "", "But He, superfluously spread,", "Demands more room alive then dead.", "And in his hollow Palace goes", "Where Winds as he themselves may lose.", "What need of all this Marble Crust", "T'impark the wanton Mose of Dust,", "That thinks by Breadth the World t'unite", "Though the first Builders fail'd in Height?", "", "But all things are composed here", "Like Nature, orderly and near:", "In which we the Dimensions find", "Of that more sober Age and Mind,", "When larger sized Men did stoop", "To enter at a narrow loop;", "As practising, in doors so strait,", "To strain themselves through Heavens Gate.", "", "And surely when the after Age", "Shall hither come in Pilgrimage,", "These sacred Places to adore,", "By Vere and Fairfax trod before,", "Men will dispute how their Extent", "Within such dwarfish Confines went:", "And some will smile at this, as well", "As Romulus his Bee-like Cell.", "", "Humility alone designs", "Those short but admirable Lines,", "By which, ungirt and unconstrain'd,", "Things greater are in less contain'd.", "Let others vainly strive t'immure", "The Circle in the Quadrature!", "These holy Mathematics can", "In ev'ry Figure equal Man.", "", "Yet thus the laden House does sweat,", "And scarce indures the Master great:", "But where he comes the swelling Hall", "Stirs, and the Square grows Spherical;", "More by his Magnitude distrest,", "Then he is by its straitness prest:", "And too officiously it slights", "That in it self which him delights.", "", "So Honour better Lowness bears,", "Then That unwonted Greatness wears", "Height with a certain Grace does bend,", "But low Things clownishly ascend.", "And yet what needs there here Excuse,", "Where ev'ry Thing does answer Use?", "Where neatness nothing can condemn,", "Nor Pride invent what to contemn?", "", "A Stately Frontispice Of Poor", "Adorns without the open Door:", "Nor less the Rooms within commends", "Daily new Furniture Of Friends.", "The House was built upon the Place", "Only as for a Mark Of Grace;", "And for an Inn to entertain", "Its Lord a while, but not remain.", "", "Him Bishops-Hill, or Denton may,", "Or Bilbrough, better hold then they:", "But Nature here hath been so free", "As if she said leave this to me.", "Art would more neatly have defac'd", "What she had laid so sweetly wast;", "In fragrant Gardens, shaddy Woods,", "Deep Meadows, and transparent Floods.", "", "While with slow Eyes we these survey,", "And on each pleasant footstep stay,", "We opportunly may relate", "The progress of this Houses Fate.", "A Nunnery first gave it birth.", "For Virgin Buildings oft brought forth.", "And all that Neighbour-Ruine shows", "The Quarries whence this dwelling rose.", "", "Near to this gloomy Cloysters Gates", "There dwelt the blooming Virgin Thwates,", "Fair beyond Measure, and an Heir", "Which might Deformity make fair.", "And oft She spent the Summer Suns", "Discoursing with the Suttle Nuns.", "Whence in these Words one to her weav'd,", "(As 'twere by Chance) Thoughts long conceiv'd.", "", "\"Within this holy leisure we", "\"Live innocently as you see.", "\"these Walls restrain the World without,", "\"But hedge our Liberty about.", "\"These Bars inclose the wider Den", "\"Of those wild Creatures, called Men.", "\"The Cloyster outward shuts its Gates,", "\"And, from us, locks on them the Grates.", "", "\"Here we, in shining Armour white,", "\"Like Virgin Amazons do fight.", "\"And our chast Lamps we hourly trim,", "\"Lest the great Bridegroom find them dim.", "\"Our Orient Breaths perfumed are", "\"With insense of incessant Pray'r.", "\"And Holy-water of our Tears", "\"Most strangly our complexion clears.", "", "\"Not Tears of Grief; but such as those", "\"With which calm Pleasure overflows;", "\"Or Pity, when we look on you", "\"That live without this happy Vow.", "\"How should we grieve that must be seen", "\"Each one a Spouse, and each a Queen;", "\"And can in Heaven hence behold", "\"Our brighter Robes and Crowns of Gold?", "", "\"When we have prayed all our Beads,", "\"Some One the holy Legend reads;", "\"While all the rest with Needles paint", "\"The Face and Graces of the Saint.", "\"But what the Linnen can't receive", "\"They in their Lives do interweave", "\"This work the Saints best represents;", "\"That serves for Altar's Ornaments.", "", "\"But much it to our work would add", "\"If here your hand, your Face we had:", "\"By it we would our Lady touch;", "\"Yet thus She you resembles much.", "\"Some of your Features, as we sow'd,", "\"Through ev'ry Shrine should be bestow'd.", "\"And in one Beauty we would take", "\"Enough a thousand Saints to make.", "", "\"And (for I dare not quench the Fire", "\"That me does for your good inspire)", "\"'Twere Sacriledge a Mant t'admit", "\"To holy things, for Heaven fit.", "\"I see the Angels in a Crown", "\"On you the Lillies show'ring down:", "\"And round about you Glory breaks,", "\"That something more then humane speaks.", "", "\"All Beauty, when at such a height,", "\"Is so already consecrate.", "\"Fairfax I know; and long ere this", "\"Have mark'd the Youth, and what he is.", "\"But can he such a Rival seem", "\"For whom you Heav'n should disesteem?", "\"Ah, no! and 'twould more Honour prove", "\"He your Devoto were, then Love.", "", "Here live beloved, and obey'd:", "Each one your Sister, each your Maid.", "\"And, if our Rule seem strictly pend,", "\"The Rule it self to you shall bend.", "\"Our Abbess too, now far in Age,", "\"Doth your succession near presage.", "\"How soft the yoke on us would lye,", "\"Might such fair Hands as yours it tye!", "", "\"Your voice, the sweetest of the Quire,", "\"Shall draw Heav'n nearer, raise us higher.", "\"And your Example, if our Head,", "\"Will soon us to perfection lead.", "\"Those Virtues to us all so dear,", "\"Will straight grow Sanctity when here:", "\"And that, once sprung, increase so fast", "\"Till Miracles it work at last.", "", "\"Nor is our Order yet so nice,", "\"Delight to banish as a Vice.", "\"Here Pleasure Piety doth meet;", "\"One perfecting the other Sweet.", "\"So through the mortal fruit we boyl", "\"The Sugars uncorrupting Oyl:", "\"And that which perisht while we pull,", "\"Is thus preserved clear and full.", "", "\"For such indeed are all our Arts;", "\"Still handling Natures finest Parts.", "\"Flow'rs dress the Altars; for the Clothes,", "\"The Sea-born Amber we compose;", "\"Balms for the griv'd we draw; and pasts", "\"We mold, as Baits for curious tasts.", "\"What need is here of Man? unless", "\"These as sweet Sins we should confess.", "", "\"Each Night among us to your side", "\"Appoint a fresh and Virgin Bride;", "\"Whom if Our Lord at midnight find,", "\"Yet Neither should be left behind.", "\"Where you may lye as chast in Bed,", "\"As Pearls together billeted.", "\"All Night embracing Arm in Arm,", "\"Like Chrystal pure with Cotton warm.", "", "\"But what is this to all the store", "\"Of Joys you see, and may make more!", "\"Try but a while, if you be wise:", "\"The Tryal neither Costs, nor Tyes.", "Now Fairfax seek her promis'd faith:", "Religion that dispensed hath;", "Which She hence forward does begin;", "The Nuns smooth Tongue has suckt her in.", "", "Oft, though he knew it was in vain,", "Yet would he valiantly complain.", "\"Is this that Sanctity so great,", "\"An Art by which you finly'r cheat", "\"Hypocrite Witches, hence Avant,", "\"Who though in prison yet inchant!", "\"Death only can such Theeves make fast,", "\"As rob though in the Dungeon cast.", "", "\"Were there but, when this House was made,", "\"One Stone that a just Hand had laid,", "\"It must have fall'n upon her Head", "\"Who first Thee from thy Faith misled.", "\"And yet, how well soever ment,", "\"With them 'twould soon grow fraudulent", "\"For like themselves they alter all,", "\"And vice infects the very Wall.", "", "\"But sure those Buildings last not long,", "\"Founded by Folly, kept by Wrong.", "\"I know what Fruit their Gardens yield,", "\"When they it think by Night conceal'd.", "\"Fly from their Vices. 'Tis thy state,", "\"Not Thee, that they would consecrate.", "\"Fly from their Ruine. How I fear", "\"Though guiltless lest thou perish there.", "", "What should he do? He would respect", "Religion, but not Right neglect:", "For first Religion taught him Right,", "And dazled not but clear'd his sight.", "Sometimes resolv'd his Sword he draws,", "But reverenceth then the Laws:", "\"For Justice still that Courage led;", "First from a Judge, then Souldier bred.", "", "Small Honour would be in the Storm.", "The Court him grants the lawful Form;", "Which licens'd either Peace or Force,", "To hinder the unjust Divorce.", "Yet still the Nuns his Right debar'd,", "Standing upon their holy Guard.", "Ill-counsell'd Women, do you know", "Whom you resist, or what you do?", "", "Is not this he whose Offspring fierce", "Shall fight through all the Universe;", "And with successive Valour try", "France, Poland, either Germany;", "Till one, as long since prophecy'd,", "His Horse through conquer'd Britain ride?", "Yet, against Fate, his Spouse they kept;", "And the great Race would intercept.", "", "Some to the Breach against their Foes", "Their Wooden Saints in vain oppose", "Another bolder stands at push", "With their old Holy-Water Brush.", "While the disjointed Abbess threads", "The gingling Chain-shot of her Beads.", "But their lowd'st Cannon were their Lungs;", "And sharpest Weapons were their Tongues.", "", "But, waving these aside like Flyes,", "Young Fairfax through the Wall does rise.", "Then th' unfrequented Vault appear'd,", "And superstitions vainly fear'd.", "The Relicks False were set to view;", "Only the Jewels there were true.", "But truly bright and holy Thwaites", "That weeping at the Altar waites.", "", "But the glad Youth away her bears,", "And to the Nuns bequeaths her Tears:", "Who guiltily their Prize bemoan,", "Like Gipsies that a Child hath stoln.", "Thenceforth (as when th' Inchantment ends", "The Castle vanishes or rends)", "The wasting Cloister with the rest", "Was in one instant dispossest.", "", "At the demolishing, this Seat", "To Fairfax fell as by Escheat.", "And what both Nuns and Founders will'd", "'Tis likely better thus fulfill'd,", "For if the Virgin prov'd not theirs,", "The Cloyster yet remained hers.", "Though many a Nun there made her vow,", "'Twas no Religious-House till now.", "", "From that blest Bed the Heroe came,", "Whom France and Poland yet does fame:", "Who, when retired here to Peace,", "His warlike Studies could not cease;", "But laid these Gardens out in sport", "In the just Figure of a Fort;", "And with five Bastions it did fence,", "As aiming one for ev'ry Sense.", "", "When in the East the Morning Ray", "Hangs out the Colours of the Day,", "The Bee through these known Allies hums,", "Beating the Dian with its Drumms.", "Then Flow'rs their drowsie Eylids raise,", "Their Silken Ensigns each displayes,", "And dries its Pan yet dank with Dew,", "And fills its Flask with Odours new.", "", "These, as their Governour goes by,", "In fragrant Vollyes they let fly;", "And to salute their Governess", "Again as great a charge they press:", "None for the Virgin Nymph; for She", "Seems with the Flow'rs a Flow'r to be.", "And think so still! though not compare", "With Breath so sweet, or Cheek so faire.", "", "Well shot ye Fireman! Oh how sweet,", "And round your equal Fires do meet;", "Whose shrill report no Ear can tell,", "But Ecchoes to the Eye and smell.", "See how the Flow'rs, as at Parade,", "Under their Colours stand displaid:", "Each Regiment in order grows,", "That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.", "", "But when the vigilant Patroul", "Of Stars walks round about the Pole,", "Their Leaves, that to the stalks are curl'd,", "Seem to their Staves the Ensigns furl'd.", "Then in some Flow'rs beloved Hut", "Each Bee as Sentinel is shut;", "And sleeps so too: but, if once stir'd,", "She runs you through, or askes The Word.", "", "Oh Thou, that dear and happy Isle", "The Garden of the World ere while,", "Thou Paradise of four Seas,", "Which Heaven planted us to please,", "But, to exclude the World, did guard", "With watry if not flaming Sword;", "What luckless Apple did we tast,", "To make us Mortal, and The Wast.", "", "Unhappy! shall we never more", "That sweet Milltia restore,", "When Gardens only had their Towrs,", "And all the Garrisons were Flow'rs,", "When Roses only Arms might bear,", "And Men did rosie Garlands wear?", "Tulips, in several Colours barr'd,", "Were then the Switzers of our Guard.", "", "The Gardiner had the Souldiers place,", "And his more gentle Forts did trace.", "The Nursery of all things green", "Was then the only Magazeen.", "The Winter Quarters were the Stoves,", "Where he the tender Plants removes.", "But War all this doth overgrow:", "We Ord'nance Plant and Powder sow.", "", "And yet their walks one on the Sod", "Who, had it pleased him and God,", "Might once have made our Gardens spring", "Fresh as his own and flourishing.", "But he preferr'd to the Cinque Ports", "These five imaginary Forts:", "And, in those half-dry Trenches, spann'd", "Pow'r which the Ocean might command.", "", "For he did, with his utmost Skill,", "Ambition weed, but Conscience till.", "Conscience, that Heaven-nursed Plant,", "Which most our Earthly Gardens want.", "A prickling leaf it bears, and such", "As that which shrinks at ev'ry touch;", "But Flow'rs eternal, and divine,", "That in the Crowns of Saints do shine.", "", "The sight does from these Bastions ply,", "Th' invisible Artilery;", "And at proud Cawood Castle seems", "To point the Battery of its Beams.", "As if it quarrell'd in the Seat", "Th' Ambition of its Prelate great.", "But ore the Meads below it plays,", "Or innocently seems to gaze.", "", "And now to the Abbyss I pass", "Of that unfathomable Grass,", "Where Men like Grashoppers appear,", "But Grashoppers are Gyants there:", "They, in there squeking Laugh, contemn", "Us as we walk more low then them:", "And, from the Precipices tall", "Of the green spir's, to us do call.", "", "To see Men through this Meadow Dive,", "We wonder how they rise alive.", "As, under Water, none does know", "Whether he fall through it or go.", "But, as the Marriners that sound,", "And show upon their Lead the Ground,", "They bring up Flow'rs so to be seen,", "And prove they've at the Bottom been.", "", "No Scene that turns with Engines strange", "Does oftner then these Meadows change,", "For when the Sun the Grass hath vext,", "The tawny Mowers enter next;", "Who seem like Israaliies to be,", "Walking on foot through a green Sea.", "To them the Grassy Deeps divide,", "And crowd a Lane to either Side.", "", "With whistling Sithe, and Elbow strong,", "These Massacre the Grass along:", "While one, unknowing, carves the Rail,", "Whose yet unfeather'd Quils her fail.", "The Edge all bloody from its Breast", "He draws, and does his stroke detest;", "Fearing the Flesh untimely mow'd", "To him a Fate as black forebode.", "", "But bloody Thestylis, that waites", "To bring the mowing Camp their Cates,", "Greedy as Kites has trust it up,", "And forthwith means on it to sup:", "When on another quick She lights,", "And cryes, he call'd us Israelites;", "But now, to make his saying true,", "Rails rain for Quails, for Manna Dew.", "", "Unhappy Birds! what does it boot", "To build below the Grasses Root;", "When Lowness is unsafe as Hight,", "And Chance o'retakes what scapeth spight?", "And now your Orphan Parents Call", "Sounds your untimely Funeral.", "Death-Trumpets creak in such a Note,", "And 'tis the Sourdine in their Throat.", "", "Or sooner hatch or higher build:", "The Mower now commands the Field;", "In whose new Traverse seemeth wrought", "A Camp of Battail newly fought:", "Where, as the Meads with Hay, the Plain", "Lyes quilted ore with Bodies slain:", "The Women that with forks it filing,", "Do represent the Pillaging.", "", "And now the careless Victors play,", "Dancing the Triumphs of the Hay;", "Where every Mowers wholesome Heat", "Smells like an Alexanders Sweat.", "Their Females fragrant as the Mead", "Which they in Fairy Circles tread:", "When at their Dances End they kiss,", "Their new-made Hay not sweeter is.", "", "When after this 'tis pil'd in Cocks,", "Like a calm Sea it shews the Rocks:", "We wondring in the River near", "How Boats among them safely steer.", "Or, like the Desert Memphis Sand,", "Short Pyramids of Hay do stand.", "And such the Roman Camps do rise", "In Hills for Soldiers Obsequies.", "", "This Scene again withdrawing brings", "A new and empty Face of things;", "A levell'd space, as smooth and plain,", "As Clothes for Lilly strecht to stain.", "The World when first created sure", "Was such a Table rase and pure.", "Or rather such is the Toril", "Ere the Bulls enter at Madril.", "", "For to this naked equal Flat,", "Which Levellers take Pattern at,", "The Villagers in common chase", "Their Cattle, which it closer rase;", "And what below the Sith increast", "Is pincht yet nearer by the Breast.", "Such, in the painted World, appear'd", "Davenant with th'Universal Heard.", "", "They seem within the polisht Grass", "A landskip drawen in Looking-Glass.", "And shrunk in the huge Pasture show", "As spots, so shap'd, on Faces do.", "Such Fleas, ere they approach the Eye,", "In Multiplyiug Glasses lye.", "They feed so wide, so slowly move,", "As Constellatious do above.", "", "Then, to conclude these pleasant Acts,", "Denton sets ope its Cataracts;", "And makes the Meadow truly be", "(What it but seem'd before) a Sea.", "For, jealous of its Lords long stay,", "It try's t'invite him thus away.", "The River in it self is drown'd,", "And Isl's th' astonish Cattle round.", "", "Let others tell the Paradox,", "How Eels now bellow in the Ox;", "How Horses at their Tails do kick,", "Turn'd as they hang to Leeches quick;", "How Boats can over Bridges sail;", "And Fishes do the Stables scale.", "How Salmons trespassing are found;", "And Pikes are taken in the Pound.", "", "But I, retiring from the Flood,", "Take Sanctuary in the Wood;", "And, while it lasts, my self imbark", "In this yet green, yet growing Ark;", "Where the first Carpenter might best", "Fit Timber for his Keel have Prest.", "And where all Creatures might have shares,", "Although in Armies, not in Paires.", "", "The double Wood of ancient Stocks", "Link'd in so thick, an Union locks,", "It like two Pedigrees appears,", "On one hand Fairfax, th' other Veres:", "Of whom though many fell in War,", "Yet more to Heaven shooting are:", "And, as they Natures Cradle deckt,", "Will in green Age her Hearse expect.", "", "When first the Eye this Forrest sees", "It seems indeed as Wood not Trees:", "As if their Neighbourhood so old", "To one great Trunk them all did mold.", "There the huge Bulk takes place, as ment", "To thrust up a Fifth Element;", "And stretches still so closely wedg'd", "As if the Night within were hedg'd.", "", "Dark all without it knits; within", "It opens passable and thin;", "And in as loose an order grows,", "As the Corinthean Porticoes.", "The Arching Boughs unite between", "The Columnes of the Temple green;", "And underneath the winged Quires", "Echo about their tuned Fires.", "", "The Nightingale does here make choice", "To sing the Tryals of her Voice.", "Low Shrubs she sits in, and adorns", "With Musick high the squatted Thorns.", "But highest Oakes stoop down to hear,", "And listning Elders prick the Ear.", "The Thorn, lest it should hurt her, draws", "Within the Skin its shrunken claws.", "", "But I have for my Musick found", "A Sadder, yet more pleasing Sound:", "The Stock-doves whose fair necks are grac'd", "With Nuptial Rings their Ensigns chast;", "Yet always, for some Cause unknown,", "Sad pair unto the Elms they moan.", "O why should such a Couple mourn,", "That in so equal Flames do burn!", "", "Then as I carless on the Bed", "Of gelid Straw-berryes do tread,", "And through the Hazles thick espy", "The hatching Thrastles shining Eye,", "The Heron from the Ashes top,", "The eldest of its young lets drop,", "As if it Stork-like did pretend", "That Tribute to its Lord to send.", "", "But most the Hewel's wonders are,", "Who here has the Holt-felsters care.", "He walks still upright from the Root,", "Meas'ring the Timber with his Foot;", "And all the way, to keep it clean,", "Doth from the Bark the Wood-moths glean.", "He, with his Beak, examines well", "Which fit to stand and which to fell.", "", "The good he numbers up, and hacks;", "As if he mark'd them with the Ax.", "But where he, tinkling with his Beak,", "Does find the hollow Oak to speak,", "That for his building he designs,", "And through the tainted Side he mines.", "Who could have thought the tallest Oak", "Should fall by such a feeble Strok'!", "", "Nor would it, had the Tree not fed", "A Traitor-worm, within it bred.", "(As first our Flesh corrupt within", "Tempts impotent and bashful Sin.", "And yet that Worm triumphs not long,", "But serves to feed the Hewels young.", "While the Oake seems to fall content,", "Viewing the Treason's Punishment.", "", "Thus I, easie Philosopher,", "Among the Birds and Trees confer:", "And little now to make me, wants", "Or of the Fowles, or of the Plants.", "Give me but Wings as they, and I", "Streight floting on the Air shall fly:", "Or turn me but, and you shall see", "I was but an inverted Tree.", "", "Already I begin to call", "In their most-learned Original:", "And where I Language want,my Signs", "The Bird upon the Bough divines;", "And more attentive there doth sit", "Then if She were with Lime-twigs knit.", "No Leaf does tremble in the Wind", "Which I returning cannot find.", "", "Out of these scatter'd Sibyls Leaves", "Strange Prophecies my Phancy weaves:", "And in one History consumes,", "Like Mexique Paintings, all the Plumes.", "What Rome, Greece, Palestine, ere said", "I in this light Mosaick read.", "Thrice happy he who, not mistook,", "Hath read in Natures mystick Book.", "", "And see how Chance's better Wit", "Could with a Mask my studies hit!", "The Oak-Leaves me embroyder all,", "Between which Caterpillars crawl:", "And Ivy, with familiar trails,", "Me licks, and clasps, and curles, and hales.", "Under this antick Cope I move", "Like some great Prelate of the Grove,", "", "Then, languishing with ease, I toss", "On Pallets swoln of Velvet Moss;", "While the Wind, cooling through the Boughs,", "Flatters with Air my panting Brows.", "Thanks for my Rest ye Mossy Banks,", "And unto you cool Zephyr's Thanks,", "Who, as my Hair, my Thoughts too shed,", "And winnow from the Chaff my Head.", "", "How safe, methinks, and strong, behind", "These Trees have I incamp'd my Mind;", "Where Beauty, aiming at the Heart,", "Bends in some Tree its useless Dart;", "And where the World no certain Shot", "Can make, or me it toucheth not.", "But I on it securely play,", "And gaul its Horsemen all the Day.", "", "Bind me ye Woodbines in your 'twines,", "Curle me about ye gadding Vines,", "And Oh so close your Circles lace,", "That I may never leave this Place:", "But, lest your Fetters prove too weak,", "Ere I your Silken Bondage break,", "Do you, O Brambles, chain me too,", "And courteous Briars nail me though.", "", "Here in the Morning tye my Chain,", "Where the two Woods have made a Lane;", "While, like a Guard on either side,", "The Trees before their Lord divide;", "This, like a long and equal Thread,", "Betwixt two Labyrinths does lead.", "But, where the Floods did lately drown,", "There at the Ev'ning stake me down.", "", "For now the Waves are fal'n and dry'd,", "And now the Meadows fresher dy'd;", "Whose Grass, with moister colour dasht,", "Seems as green Silks but newly washt.", "No Serpent new nor Crocodile", "Remains behind our little Nile;", "Unless it self you will mistake,", "Among these Meads the only Snake.", "", "See in what wanton harmless folds", "It ev'ry where the Meadow holds;", "And its yet muddy back doth lick,", "Till as a Chrystal Mirrour slick;", "Where all things gaze themselves, and doubt", "If they be in it or without.", "And for his shade which therein shines,", "Narcissus like, the Sun too pines.", "", "Oh what a Pleasure 'tis to hedge", "My Temples here with heavy sedge;", "Abandoning my lazy Side,", "Stretcht as a Bank unto the Tide;", "Or to suspend my sliding Foot", "On the Osiers undermined Root,", "And in its Branches tough to hang,", "While at my Lines the Fishes twang!", "", "But now away my Hooks, my Quills,", "And Angles, idle Utensils.", "The Young Maria walks to night:", "Hide trifling Youth thy Pleasures slight.", "'Twere shame that such judicious Eyes", "Should with such Toyes a Man surprize;", "She that already is the Law", "Of all her Sex, her Ages Aw.", "", "See how loose Nature, in respect", "To her, it self doth recollect;", "And every thing so whisht and fine,", "Starts forth with to its Bonne Mine.", "The Sun himself, of Her aware,", "Seems to descend with greater Care,", "And lest She see him go to Bed,", "In blushing Clouds conceales his Head.", "", "So when the Shadows laid asleep", "From underneath these Banks do creep,", "And on the River as it flows", "With Eben Shuts begin to close;", "The modest Halcyon comes in sight,", "Flying betwixt the Day and Night;", "And such an horror calm and dumb,", "Admiring Nature does benum.", "", "The viscous Air, wheres'ere She fly,", "Follows and sucks her Azure dy;", "The gellying Stream compacts below,", "If it might fix her shadow so;", "The Stupid Fishes hang, as plain", "As Flies in Chrystal overt'ane,", "And Men the silent Scene assist,", "Charm'd with the saphir-winged Mist.", "", "Maria such, and so doth hush", "The World, and through the Ev'ning rush.", "No new-born Comet such a Train", "Draws through the Skie, nor Star new-slain.", "For streight those giddy Rockets fail,", "Which from the putrid Earth exhale,", "But by her Flames, in Heaven try'd,", "Nature is wholly Vitrifi'd.", "", "'Tis She that to these Gardens gave", "That wondrous Beauty which they have;", "She streightness on the Woods bestows;", "To Her the Meadow sweetness owes;", "Nothing could make the River be", "So Chrystal-pure but only She;", "She yet more Pure, Sweet, Streight, and Fair,", "Then Gardens, Woods, Meads, Rivers are.", "", "Therefore what first She on them spent,", "They gratefully again present.", "The Meadow Carpets where to tread;", "The Garden Flow'rs to Crown Her Head;", "And for a Glass the limpid Brook,", "Where She may all her Beautyes look;", "But, since She would not have them seen,", "The Wood about her draws a Skreen.", "", "For She, to higher Beauties rais'd,", "Disdains to be for lesser prais'd.", "She counts her Beauty to converse", "In all the Languages as hers;", "Not yet in those her self imployes", "But for the Wisdome, not the Noyse;", "Nor yet that Wisdome would affect,", "But as 'tis Heavens Dialect.", "", "Blest Nymph! that couldst so soon prevent", "Those Trains by Youth against thee meant;", "Tears (watry Shot that pierce the Mind;)", "And Sighs (Loves Cannon charg'd with Wind;)", "True Praise (That breaks through all defence;)", "And feign'd complying Innocence;", "But knowing where this Ambush lay,", "She scap'd the safe, but roughest Way.", "", "This 'tis to have been from the first", "In a Domestick Heaven nurst,", "Under the Discipline severe", "Of Fairfax, and the starry Vere;", "Where not one object can come nigh", "But pure, and spotless as the Eye;", "And Goodness doth it self intail", "On Females, if there want a Male.", "", "Go now fond Sex that on your Face", "Do all your useless Study place,", "Nor once at Vice your Brows dare knit", "Lest the smooth Forehead wrinkled sit", "Yet your own Face shall at you grin,", "Thorough the Black-bag of your Skin;", "When knowledge only could have fill'd", "And Virtue all those Furows till'd.", "", "Hence She with Graces more divine", "Supplies beyond her Sex the Line;", "And, like a sprig of Misleto,", "On the Fairfacian Oak does grow;", "Whence, for some universal good,", "The Priest shall cut the sacred Bud;", "While her glad Parents most rejoice,", "And make their Destiny their Choice.", "", "Mean time ye Fields, Springs, Bushes, Flow'rs,", "Where yet She leads her studious Hours,", "(Till Fate her worthily translates,", "And find a Fairfax for our Thwaites)", "Employ the means you have by Her,", "And in your kind your selves preferr;", "That, as all Virgins She preceds,", "So you all Woods, Streams, Gardens, Meads.", "", "For you Thessalian Tempe's Seat", "Shall now be scorn'd as obsolete;", "Aranjeuz, as less, disdain'd;", "The Bel-Retiro as constrain'd;", "But name not the Idalian Grove,", "For 'twas the Seat of wanton Love;", "Much less the Dead's Elysian Fields,", "Yet nor to them your Beauty yields.", "", "'Tis not, what once it was, the World;", "But a rude heap together hurl'd;", "All negligently overthrown,", "Gulfes, Deserts, Precipices, Stone.", "Your lesser World contains the same.", "But in more decent Order tame;", "You Heaven's Center, Nature's Lap.", "And Paradice's only Map.", "", "But now the Salmon-Fishers moist", "Their Leathern Boats begin to hoist;", "And, like Antipodes in Shoes,", "Have shod their Heads in their Canoos.", "How Tortoise like, but not so slow,", "These rational Amphibii go?", "Let's in: for the dark Hemisphere", "Does now like one of them appear." ], "linecount": "776" } ]