HIS POETRY HIS PILLAR Only a little more I have to write: Then I’ll give o’er, And...
1600s
THE WORLD by Lord Francis Bacon of Verulam The World’s a bubble, and the Life of Man...
Upon A Spider Catching A Fly by Edward Taylor (1642-1729) Thou sorrow, venom Elfe: Is this thy...
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
John Milton (1608-1674) Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping...
John Dryden (1631-1700) Hidden Flame by John Dryden Feed a flame within, which so torments me That...
