John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
married past three within
I am to be married within these three days; married past redemption.
necessary raise revolutions-and-revolutionaries ruin true
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
deserves worlds
She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
draw knows rant single
She knows her man, and when you rant or swear, / Can draw you to her with a single hair.
fond harmless household meant nature silly
Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
again bleed fight lay rise wounded
I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, Then I'll rise and fight with you again
affects assumes ears monarch seems shake
With ravished ears / The monarch hears, / Assumes the god, / Affects to nod, / And seems to shake the spheres.
danced days witness
Witness ye days and nights, and all ye hours, / That danced away with down upon your feet.
affect gravity men name solid wanting wit
Those wanting wit affect gravity and go by the name of solid men
men judging long
When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.
freedom democracies-have people
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
heaps
To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
bones corners four rattling together
When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky.
earth kindly welcome
Welcome as kindly showers to the long parched earth.