John Henry Dryden's Poetry, by popularity

• Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1674.

  Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'd
  To unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind:

  38 lines
• Prologue to the Princess of Cleves

  Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear)
  I long to whisper something in your ear:

  34 lines
• Suum Cuique

  When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,
  The tenants they extirpate or oppress,

  88 lines
• The Character Of A Good Parson. Imitated From Chaucer, And Enlarged

  A parish-priest was of the pilgrim-train;
  An awful, reverend, and religious man.

  139 lines
• Roundelay

  Chloe found Amyntas lying,
  All in tears, upon the plain,

  30 lines
• Prologue to Albumazar

  To say this comedy pleased long ago,
  Is not enough to make it pass you now.

  47 lines
• Prologue to His Royal Highness, Upon His First Appearance at the Duke's Theatre After His Return from Scotland.

  In those cold regions which no summers cheer,
  Where brooding darkness covers half the year,

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

    The day approached when Fortune should decide
    The important enterprise, and give the bride;

  1205 lines
• The Wife Of Bath Her Tale

  In days of old, when Arthur filled the throne,
  Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown,

  545 lines
• Te Deum

    Thee, Sovereign God, our grateful accents praise;
    We own thee Lord, and bless thy wondrous ways;

  42 lines
• Prologue to the Prophetess, by Beaumont and Fletcher. Revived by Dryden. Spoken by Mr. Betterton

  What Nostradame, with all his art, can guess
  The fate of our approaching Prophetess?

  50 lines
• Prologue To Sophonisba; Spoken at Oxford, 1680

  Thespis, the first professor of our art,
  At country wakes, sung ballads from a cart.

  29 lines
• Prologue Spoken the First Day of the King's House Acting After the Fire

  So shipwracked passengers escape to land,
  So look they, when on the bare beach they stand,

  29 lines
• Impromptu Lines Addressed To His Cousin, Mrs. Creed, In A Conversation After Dinner On The Origin Of Names

  So much religion in your name doth dwell,
  Your soul must needs with piety excel.

  9 lines
• Fair Iris I Love And Hourly I Die

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

  12 lines
• Prologue to the True Widow

  Heaven save ye, gallants, and this hopeful age!
  Y' are welcome to the downfall of the stage.

  31 lines
• Prologue For The Women, When They Acted at the Old Theatre, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields

  Were none of you, gallants, e'er driven so hard,
  As when the poor kind soul was under guard,

  22 lines
• Sigismond And Guiscardo. From Boccace

  While Norman Tancred in Salerno reigned,
  The title of a gracious Prince he gained;

  805 lines
• The Beautiful Lady Of The May

  A quire of bright beauties in spring did appear,
  To choose a May-lady to govern the year;

  22 lines
• The Secular Masque

  Enter JANUS
  JANUS

  160 lines
• The Tears Of Amynta, For The Death Of Damon. A Song

  On a bank, beside a willow,
  Heaven her covering, earth her pillow,

  32 lines
• To my Friend Mr. Motteux, on His Tragedy Called Beauty in Distress, Published in 1698

  'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age,
  As damns not only poets, but the stage.

  54 lines
• Palamon And Arcite; Or The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book II.

    While Arcite lives in bliss, the story turns
    Where hopeless Palamon in prison mourns.

  609 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
• Lines Printed Under The Engraved Portrait Of Milton, In Tonson's Folio Edition Of The Paradise Lost, 1688

  Three poets, in three distant ages born,
  Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn.

  7 lines
• Prologue to Caesar Borgia

  The unhappy man, who once has trailed a pen,
  Lives not to please himself, but other men;

  41 lines
• Tarquin And Tullia

  In times when princes cancelled nature's law,
  And declarations which themselves did draw;

  150 lines
• Lines In A Letter To His Lady Cousin, Honor Driden, Who Had Given Him A Silver Inkstand, With A Set Of Writing Materials, 1655

  For since 'twas mine, the white hath lost its hue,
  To show 'twas ne'er it self but whilst in you,

  7 lines
• Song Of A Scholar And His Mistress, Who, Being Crossed By Their Friends, Fell Mad For One Another; And Now First Meet In Bedlam

  [Music within.]
  The Lovers enter at opposite doors, each held by a keeper.

  56 lines
• Prologue Spoken at the Opening of The New House, March 26, 1674

  A plain-built house, after so long a stay,
  Will send you half unsatisfied away;

  52 lines

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