John Dryden

Poems (11)

• A Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day, 1687

  From harmony, from heavenly harmony, / This universal frame began; …

• A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

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

• Ah, how sweet it is to love!

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

• Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music

  An Ode / ’T WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won …

• Canto en honor de Santa Cecilia

  De armonía, de célica armonía, / La fábrica brotó del universo. …

• Hidden Flame

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

• La fe católica

  Como la luna pálida y les astros / Al viajador cansado, errante, solo, …

• Ode

  Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, / Made in the last promotion of the blest; …

• Song to a Fair Young Lady,going out of the Town in the Spring

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

• Under the Portrait of John Milton

  Prefixed to “Paradise Lost” / THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, …

• “Ah, how sweet”

  From “Tyrannic Love,” Act IV. Sc. 1. / AH, how sweet it is to love! …