IN APPRECIATION OF LITERARY LABOUR
IN GRATITUDE FOR COUNTLESS GOOD WORDS

AND, ABOVE ALL
TO COMMEMORATE A FRIENDSHIP
“ UNIMPAIRED BY TIME" AND UNCHANGED
THROUGH ALL CHANGES, THIS BOOK IS

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Abash'd the Devil stood
Abdiel, faithful found - - -
About them fri

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Above them all
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part
Adam ... .
Adam, thou know'st Heaven his, and all the Earth
Adam to the bower where Eve
A different sort - .
Against the threats . - .
Ah, Constantine, of how much ill was cause
Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth -
Alas! what boots it with uncessant care - -
All is best, though we oft doubt
All the cataracts ;
All things are best fulfill'd in their due time .
And reason; since his word all things produced
A noble stroke he lifted high .
A peasant to his lord paid yearly court
As bees . . -
As I rose out of the laving stream .
As on a hill-top rude, when closing day
As one who, long in populous city pent
A spot like that which perhaps ..
As the sound of waters deep - .
As when a prowling wolf - -
As when a vulture on Imaus bred .
As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds
As when of old some orator renown'd - .
As when the Tartar from his Russian foe
As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild
At his birth a star - - -
At once came forth whatever creeps the ground -
At that tasted fruit.
Author of evil . .
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones
Azazel

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Because thou hast, though throned in highest bliss.
Because you have thrown off your Prelate Lord .
Before the starry threshold of Jove's court
Behold
Behold -
Belial
Belial came last, than whom a Spirit more lewd
Beyond compare the Son of God was seen
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy.
Both stood - - - - - -
But, as a man who had been matchless held

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But past who can recall, or done undo . . .
But patience is more oft the exercise - - -
But thee far most I mourned, regretted most.
But wherefore all night long shine these? for whom

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Can this be he
Can thus · · · · · · · · ·
Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in arms . . .
Certain it is, that he who hath obtained - - -
Charles—and I say it wondering--thou must know
Come therefore, O thou that hast the seven stars -
Come, thou Goddess fair and free - - - -
Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud .
Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear
Cyriack, whose grandsire on the royal bench .

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Daughter to that good Earl, once President ..
Death who sets all free
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name -
Desire of wine and all delicious drinks - .
Did God take such delight . .
Do not boast -
Do not charge most innocent Nature - .
Eden, where delicious Paradise
Effulgence of my glory, Son beloved - -
Enamoured, artless, young, on foreign ground -
Eternal might · · ·
Eve • .
Eve.
Eve, easily may faith admit that all -
Even and morn accomplish'd the sixth day . .
Eve ... to her husband thus began . .
Eve to him replied - ... - - - - -
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night - - -
Fairfax, whose name in arms through Europe rings
Fair Lady' whose harmonious name the Rhine .
Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouth'd . .