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Prologue from Preparatory Meditations Before My Approach to The Lord's Supper Edward Taylor	Lord, can a crumb of dust the earth outweigh, Outmatch all mountains, nay the crystal sky? Imbosom in't designs that shall display And trace into the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue Spoken at the Opening of The New House, March 26, 1674 John Dryden	A plain-built house, after so long a stay, Will send you half unsatisfied away; When, fallen from your expected pomp, you find A bare convenience...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue Spoken the First Day of the King's House Acting After the Fire John Dryden	So shipwracked passengers escape to land, So look they, when on the bare beach they stand, Dropping and cold, and their first fear scarce o'er, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To A Charade. - "Damn-Ages." Horace Smith	When rare Ben Jonson ruled the humorous stage, No play without its Prologue might appear To earn applause or ward the critic's sneer;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to a Saga Dorothy Parker	Maidens, gather not the yew, Leave the glossy myrtle sleeping; Any lad was born untrue, Never a one is fit your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to Albumazar John Dryden	To say this comedy pleased long ago, Is not enough to make it pass you now. Yet, gentlemen, your ancestors had wit, When few men censured, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to Caesar Borgia John Dryden	The unhappy man, who once has trailed a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To Faulkener Charles Lamb	A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM GODWIN,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to His Royal Highness, Upon His First Appearance at the Duke's Theatre After His Return from Scotland. John Dryden	In those cold regions which no summers cheer, Where brooding darkness covers half the year, To hollow caves the shivering natives go, Bears range...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To Mallet's Mustapha James Thomson	Since Athens first began to draw mankind, To picture life, and show the impassion'd mind; The truly wise have ever deem'd the stage The moral...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for Bread Vachel Lindsay	Even the shrewd and bitter, Gnarled by the old world's greed, Cherished the stranger softly Seeing his utter need. Shelter and patient hearing, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to Rodin in Rime Aleister Crowley	To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To Sophonisba; Spoken at Oxford, 1680 John Dryden	Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes, sung ballads from a cart. To prove this true, if Latin be no trespass, Dicitur et...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To Steele's Tender Husband Joseph Addison	In the first rise and infancy of farce, When fools were many, and when plays were scarce The raw unpractis'd authors could, with ease, A young and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To Tancred And Sigismunda James Thomson	Bold is the man! who, in this nicer age, Presumes to tread the chaste corrected stage. Now, with gay tinsel arts, we can no more Conceal the want...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To The Argive Women Maurice Hewlett	(Odysseus before the House of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to the Princess of Cleves John Dryden	Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear) I long to whisper something in your ear: A secret, which does much my mind perplex,— There's treason...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to the Prophetess, by Beaumont and Fletcher. Revived by Dryden. Spoken by Mr. Betterton John Dryden	What Nostradame, with all his art, can guess The fate of our approaching Prophetess? A play, which, like a prospective set right, Presents our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to the True Widow John Dryden	Heaven save ye, gallants, and this hopeful age! Y' are welcome to the downfall of the stage. The fools have laboured long in their vocation, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1674. John Dryden	Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'd To unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind: When tired with following nature, you think fit To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To Western Australia John Boyle O'Reilly	Nor gold, nor silver are the words set here, Nor rich-wrought chasing on design of art; But rugged relics of an unknown sphere Where fortune...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue: The Pleasant Comedy Of Old Fortunatus Thomas Dekker	OF Love's sweet war our timorous Muse doth sing, And to the bosom of each gentle dear, Offers her artless tunes, borne on the wing Of sacred poesy. A...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Angel In The House. Book I. The Prologue. Coventry Patmore	I. Mine is no horse with wings, to gain ‘The region of the spheral chime; ‘He does but drag a rumbling wain, ‘Cheer'd by the coupled bells of rhyme;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Angel In The House. Book II. The Prologue. Coventry Patmore	I Her sons pursue the butterflies, Her baby daughter mocks the doves With throbbing coo; in his fond eyes She's Venus with her little Loves; Her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Canterbury Tales; PROLOGUE Geoffrey Chaucer	Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)