George Chapman Never Poems

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    Such speech they chang'd; when in the yard there lay
    A dog, call'd Argus, which, before his way
    Assum'd for Ilion, Ulysses bred,
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    Muses that sing love's sensual empery,
    And lovers kindling your enraged fires
    At Cupid's bonfires burning in the eye,
    Blown with the empty breath of vain desires;
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    Fall, Hercules, from heaven, in tempests hurl'd,
    And cleanse this beastly stable of the world;
    Or bend thy brazen bow against the Sun,
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    To this great Hector said:
    "Be well assur'd, wife, all these things in my kind cares are weigh'd,
    But what a shame and fear it is to think how Troy would scorn
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    No longer could the Day nor Destinies
    Delay the Night, who now did frowning rise
    Into her throne; and at her humorous breasts
    Visions and Dreams lay sucking: all men's rests
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  • 6.
    New light gives new directions, fortunes new,
    To fashion our endeavours that ensue.
    More harsh, at least more hard, more grave and high
    Our subject runs, and our stern Muse must fly.
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Total 6 Never Poems by George Chapman

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