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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
Poems (1656)
His time is forever, everywhere his place.
Works (1668)
An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
Poems (1656)
What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?
Poems (1656)
The fairest garden in her looks,
And in her mind the wisest books.
Works (1668)
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
Poems (1656)
Who lets slip Fortune, her shall never find,
Occasion once passed by, is bald behind.
Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.
Poems (1656)
Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.
Works (1668)
A man in much business must either make himself a knave, or else the world will make him a fool.
Works (1668)
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise
As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Unable to corrupt, seek to destroy;
And where their Poysons miss, the Sword employ.
Poems (1656)
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape
Who dost in every country change thy shape!
Poems (1656)
Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past,
And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.
This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Works (1668)
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Works (1668)
Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
Hence ye profane; I hate you all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.
A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
Poems (1656)
Here Lucifer the mighty Captive reigns;
Proud, 'midst his Woes, and Tyrant in his Chains.
Poems (1656)