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Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last.
The Secular Masque (1700)
If all the world be worth thy winning.
Think, oh think it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee,
Take the good the gods provide thee.
Alexander's Feast (1697)
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Epistle to Congreve (1693)
Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.
What all your sex desire is Sovereignty.
My heart's so full of joy,
That I shall do some wild extravagance
Of love in public, and the foolish world,
Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.
All for Love (1678)
According to her cloth she cut her coat.
Since heaven's eternal year is thine.
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686)
For pity melts the mind to love.
Alexander's Feast (1697)
For who can be secure of private right,
If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?
Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
'Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.
For what can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
For Pigeons' flesh he seems not much to care;
Cram'd Chickens are a more delicious fare.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
Their heavenly harps a lower strain began,
And in soft music mourn the fall of man.
The State of Innocence (1677)