The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole.

Grove. v. Dark, Silent VVood.

All husht and silent as the mid of night. Birds that compassion from the rocks could bring, Had onely license in that place to sing. Whose dolefull notes the melancholy Cat, Close in an hollow tree sat wondring at, Trees nod their curled heads as they would be The judges to approve their melodie, Where Fairies danc'd, and Shepherds quills, In sweet contention past the tedious day: Dark silent grov••, profan'd by no unholy love.

Where witty melancholy ne'r Did carve the trees or wound the air, Where nought except a solitary spring Was ever heard, to which the Nymphs did sing, Narcissus obsequies. The scattered grove Leads winter shelters, and gives summer bowers, As with the flood in courtesie it strove, And by repulsing the sharp Northern showers, Courts the proud Castle, who by turning to her, Smiles to behold the wanton wood nymph wooe her, A bushie grove pricking the lookers eye, Where every morn a quire of Sylvans song, And leavs to chattering winds serv'd as a tongue, By which the water turns in many a ring, As if it fain would stay to hear them sing, And on the top a thousand young birds flie To be instructed in their harmonie