Andrew Marvell,
Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
“ Besides the force it has to fright The spirits of the shady night, The same arts that did gain A power, must it maintain. ”
Andrew Marvell,
Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
“ Besides the force it has to fright The spirits of the shady night, The same arts that did gain A power, must it maintain. ”
Andrew Marvell,
Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
“ So restless Cromwell could not cease In the inglorious arts of peace, But through adventurous war Urgèd his active star:And like the three-fork’d lightning, first Breaking the clouds where it was nurst, Did thorough his own side His fiery way divide:For ’tis all one to courage high, The emulous, or enemy; ”
Andrew Marvell,
Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
“ The forward youth that would appear, Must now forsake his Muses dear, Nor in the shadows sing His numbers languishing. ”