John Henry Dryden's Poetry, by first line

• Troilus And Cressida

  Can life be a blessing,
  Or worth the possessing,

  14 lines
• Religio Laici

  (OR A LAYMAN'S FAITH)
  Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars

  457 lines
• The Secular Masque

  Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace,
  An hundred times the rolling sun

  134 lines
• You charm'd me not with that fair face

  You charm'd me not with that fair face
  Though it was all divine:

  16 lines, 1 comment
• Calm was the even, and clear was the sky

  Calm was the even, and clear was the sky,
  And the new budding flowers did spring,

  24 lines
• By a dismal cypress lying: A Song from the Italian

  By a dismal cypress lying,
  Damon cried, all pale and dying,

  17 lines
• Song to a Fair Young Lady

  Ask not the cause why sullen Spring
  So long delays her flowers to bear;

  24 lines
• Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd

  (Comus.) Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd;
  Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap'd:

  29 lines
• Farewell Ungrateful Traitor

  Farewell ungrateful traitor,
  Farewell my perjured swain,

  24 lines
• Happy the man

  Happy the man, and happy he alone,
  He who can call today his own:

  8 lines
• A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

  From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
  This universal frame began:

  64 lines
• Absalom and Achitophel

  In pious times, e'er Priest-craft did begin,
  Before Polygamy was made a sin;

  1031 lines
• Ah, how sweet it is to love!

  AH, how sweet it is to love!
  Ah, how gay is young Desire!

  24 lines
• Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music

  'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
  By Philip's warlike son—

  141 lines
• Heroic Stanzas

  And now 'tis time; for their officious haste,
  Who would before have borne him to the sky,

  185 lines
• Hidden Flame

  I FEED a flame within, which so torments me
  That it both pains my heart, and yet contents me:

  16 lines
• The Medal

  Of all our antic sights and pageantry
  Which English idiots run in crowds to see,

  321 lines
• Song From Amphitryon

  Fair Iris I love, and hourly I die,
  But not for a lip, nor a languishing eye:

  12 lines
• Song From An Evening's Love

  After the pangs of a desperate lover,
  When day and night I have sighed all in vain,

  16 lines
• Song From Marriage-A-La-Mode

  Why should a foolish marriage vow,
  Which long ago was made,

  16 lines
• Song (Sylvia The Fair, In The Bloom Of Fifteen)

  Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen,
  Felt an innocent warmth as she lay on the green:

  33 lines, 1 comment
• To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve On His Commedy Call'd The Double Dealer

  Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last;
  The present age of wit obscures the past:

  77 lines
• To The Memory Of Mr Oldham

  Farewell, too little and too lately known,
  Whom I began to think and call my own;

  25 lines
• Eleonora : A Panegyrical

  As when some great and gracious monarch dies,
  Soft whispers first and mournful rise

  378 lines
• Life a Cheat

  When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
  Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;

  12 lines
• O Souls, In Whom No Heavenly Fire

  O souls, in whom no heavenly fire is found,
  Fat minds, and ever grovelling on the ground!

  4 lines
• Mankind

  Men are but children of a larger growth;
  Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,

  8 lines
• Dreams

  Dreams are but interludes which Fancy makes;
  When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes:

  17 lines
• Palamon And Arcite; Or, The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book I.

    In days of old there lived, of mighty fame,
    A valiant Prince, and Theseus was his name;

  637 lines
• Hymn For St. John's Eve, 29th June

    O sylvan prophet! whose eternal fame
    Echoes from Judah's hills and Jordan's stream;

  18 lines

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