Matthew Prior
Poet
1664-07-21
Books by Matthew Prior
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Poems on Several Occasions
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The Poems of Matthew Prior. (The Life of Matthew Prior
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Poems on Several Occasions, by the Late Matthew Prior
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Quotes by Matthew Prior
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The end must justify the means.
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And hope is but a dream of those that wake.
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And hope is but a dream of those that wake.
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The end must justify the means.
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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
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Ods life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
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He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.
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Her hair In ringlets rather dark than fair, Does down her ivory bosom roll, And hiding half adorns the whole.
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For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
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From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise.
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Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.
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Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind.
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What is this little, agile, precious fire, this fluttering motion which we call the mind?
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Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is blessed who ne'er was born.
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They always talk who never think.
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