Poems and translations with the Sophy / written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, Knight of the Bath.
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Poems and translations with the Sophy / written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, Knight of the Bath.
Author
Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669.
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London :: Printed for H. Herringman ...,
1668.
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"Poems and translations with the Sophy / written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, Knight of the Bath." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35654.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025.
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A SONG.
SOmnus the humble God, that dwellsIn cottages and smoaky cells,Hates gilded roofs and beds of down;And though he fears no Princes frown,Flies from the circle of a Crown.
Come, I say, thou powerful God,And thy Leaden charming Rod,Dipt in the Lethaean Lake,O're his wakeful temples shake,Lest he should sleep and never wake.
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Nature (alas) why art thou soObliged to thy greatest Foe?Sleep that is thy best repast,Yet of death it bears a taste,And both are the same thing at last.
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