John Henry Dryden's Poetry, by written

• 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
• Can life be a blessing

  Can life be a blessing,
      Or worth the possessing,

  14 lines
• To My Honoured Friend Dr. Charleton, On His Learned and Useful Works, But More Particularly His Treatise of Stonehenge, By Him Restored to the True Founder

  The longest tyranny that ever swayed,
  Was that wherein our ancestors betrayed

  57 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
• Mac Flecknoe: A Satire upon the True-blue Protestant Poet T

  All human things are subject to decay,
      And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey:

  219 lines, 2 comments
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister Arts of Poesy and Painting. An Ode

  Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies,
  Made in the last promotion of the Blest;

  222 lines
• Upon the Death of Lord Hastings

  Must noble Hastings immaturely die,
  The honour of his ancient family,

  107 lines
• Fragment of a Character of Jacob Tonson, His Publisher

  With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair,
  With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair,

  4 lines

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