John Henry Dryden's Poetry, by title

• A Prologue

  Gallants, a bashful poet bids me say,
  He's come to lose his maidenhead to-day.

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

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

  64 lines
• A Song To A Fair Young Lady Going Out Of Town In The Spring

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

  30 lines
• A Song. High State And Honours To Others Impart

  High state and honours to others impart,
      But give me your heart:

  19 lines
• A Song. Fair, Sweet And Young, Receive A Prize

  Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize
  Reserved for your victorious eyes:

  22 lines
• A Song. Go Tell Amynta, Gentle Swain

  Go tell Amynta, gentle swain,
  I would not die, nor dare complain.

  18 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
• An Epilogue

  You saw your wife was chaste, yet throughly tried,
  And, without doubt, you are hugely edified;

  36 lines
• An Ode, On the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell

  Late Servant to his Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster
  I

  41 lines
• Annus Mirabilis, The Year Of Wonders, 1666

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  In thriving arts long time had Holland grown,

  1818 lines
• ASTRÆA REDUX. A Poem, on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty, Charles the Second

  Now with a general peace the world was blest,
  While ours, a world divided from the rest,

  322 lines
• Britannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Birth of the Prince

  Our vows are heard betimes, and heaven takes care
  To grant, before we can conclude the prayer;

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

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

  17 lines
• 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
• Can life be a blessing

  Can life be a blessing,
      Or worth the possessing,

  14 lines
• Cymon And Iphigenia. From Boccace

  Old as I am, for lady's love unfit,
  The power of beauty I remember yet,

  686 lines
• Dreams

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

  17 lines
• Eleonora : A Panegyrical

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

  378 lines
• Epilogue on the Same Occasion (Princess of Cleves)

  New ministers, when first they get in place,
  Must have a care to please; and that's our case:

  47 lines
• Epilogue to Henry II.

  EPILOGUE TO HENRY II.,
  BY JOHN BANCROFT.

  38 lines
• Epilogue to Henry II.

  Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen,
  Occasioned by a mistress and a queen.

  33 lines
• Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold

  Like some raw sophister that mounts the pulpit,
  So trembles a young poet at a full pit.

  38 lines
• Epitaph On a Nephew, In Catworth Church, Huntingdonshire

  Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear.
  She always weeps, who laid him here;

  3 lines
• Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston, of Barningham, in Norfolk

  So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet,
  So ripe a judgment, and so rare a wit,

  8 lines
• Epitaph on Sir Palmes Fairborne's Tomb in Westminster Abbey

  Ye sacred relics, which your marble keep,
  Here, undisturbed by wars, in quiet sleep;

  23 lines
• Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore

  Fair, kind, and true, a treasure each alone,
  A wife, a mistress, and a friend, in one;

  9 lines
• Epitaph on the Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, Who Died at Bath, and is There Interred

  Below this marble monument is laid
  All that heaven wants of this celestial maid.

  35 lines
• Epitaph on the Monument of the Marquis of Winchester

  He who, in impious times, undaunted stood,
  And 'midst rebellion durst be just and good;

  15 lines

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