Andrew Marvell

Charissimo
Edmundo
Posuimus Pater &
Frustra superstites

How wisely Nature did decree,
With the same Eyes to weep and see
That, having view'd the object vain,
They might be ready to complain

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return From
The forward youth that would appear Must now forsake his muses dear,
Nor in the shadows sing,
His numbers languishing

Nempe sic innumero succrescunt agmine libri,
Saepia vix toto ut jam natet una mari
Fortius assidui surgunt a vulnere praeli:
Quoque magis pressa est, auctior Hydra redit

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,

C
Damon come drive thy flocks this way
D
No : 'tis too late they went astray

Farfacio
Cernis ut ingenti distinguant limite
Montis Amos clivi Bilboreique juga
Ille stat indomitus turritis undisque saxis:

Where the remote Bermudas
In th' Oceans bosome unespy'd,
From a small Boat, that row'd along,
The listning Winds receiv'd this Song

Heark how the Mower Damon Sung,
With love of Juliana stung
While ev'ry thing did seem to
The Scene more fit for his complaint

SoulO Who shall, from this Dungeon, raiseA Soul inslav'd so many wayes
With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd
In Feet ; and manacled in Hands
Here blinded with an Eye ; and

On the Victory Obtained by Blake over the Spaniards in the Bay of Santa Cruz, in the Island of Tenerife,
Now does Spain's fleet her spacious wings unfold,
Leaves the New World and hastens for the old:
But though the wind was fair, t...

Daphnis must from Chloe part:
Now is come the dismal
That must all his Hopes devour,
All his Labour, all his Art