• Beat on, proud billows; Boreas, blow;
      Swell, curlèd waves, high as Jove’s roof;
    Your incivility doth show
      That innocence is tempest proof;
    Though surly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm;
    Then strike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm.

    That which the world miscalls a jail
      A private closet is to me;
    Whilst a good...

  • When Love with unconfinèd wings
      Hovers within my gates,
    And by divine Althea brings
      To whisper at my grates;
    When I lie tangled in her hair
      And fettered with her eye,
    The birds that wanton in the air
      Know no such liberty.

    When flowing cups pass swiftly round
      With no allaying Thames,
    Our careless heads...