Prayer is the fair and radiant daughter of all the human virtues, the arch connecting heaven and earth, the sweet companion that i...s alike the lion and the dove; and prayer will give you the key of heaven. As pure and as bold as innocence, as strong as all things are that are entire and single, this fair and invincible queen rests on the material world; she has taken possession of it; for, like the sun, she casts about it a sphere of light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse:... Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother; Death ere thou has slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Know Celia, (since thou art so proud), 'Twas I that gave thee thy renowne:... Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd Of common beauties, liv'd unknowne, Had not my verse exhal'd thy name, And with it, ympt the wings of fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All ye poets of the age, All ye witlings of the stage,... Learn your jingles to reform, Crop your numbers to conform. Let your little verses flow Gently, sweetly, row by row; Let the verse the subject fit, Little subject, little wit. Namby-Pamby is your guide, Albion's joy, Hibernia's pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first,... and end by eating all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain The boundless Godhead; she did well disdain... That her eternal Verse employ'd should be On a less subject than Eternitie;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain;... His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No far-fetched sigh shall ever wound my breast, Love from mine eye a tear shall never wring,... Nor in Ah me's my whining sonnets dressed, A libertine, fantastically I sing. My verse is the true image of my mind, Ever in motion, still desiring change;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus have I made my own opinions clear; Yet neither praise expect, nor censure fear:... And this unpolished, rugged verse I chose, As fittest for discourse and nearest prose;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »