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- Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse. Bitter
- A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold… Air
- Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. Apathy
- As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in… Children
- The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. Liberty
- Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection. Behold
- (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to… Abhorred
- Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. Book
- And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. Cormorant
- Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them… All
- Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's… All
- Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom… Approach
- Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day. Close
- So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in… Anon
- O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! All
- Hide me from day's garish eye. Day
- For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when… Burden
- But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. Brought
- From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a… Day
- And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. Charge
- Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. All
- Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or… Anon
- So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each… Angel
- Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Belated
- Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. Brute
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