Edward Young

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

I've known my lady (for she loves a tune)
For fevers take an opera in June:
And, read more

I've known my lady (for she loves a tune)
For fevers take an opera in June:
And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold,
A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

A partial world will list to my lays,
While Anna reigns, and sets a female name
Unrival'd read more

A partial world will list to my lays,
While Anna reigns, and sets a female name
Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

Inhumanity is caught from man,
From smiling man.

Inhumanity is caught from man,
From smiling man.