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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE KING AND QUEEN, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Be all your senses blest with harmony
Last Line: Diffusive, great, and in their truth, secure.
First Line: Be all your senses blest with harmony
Last Line: Diffusive, great, and in their truth, secure.
BE all your senses blest with harmony,
Proportion'd objects meet each faculty,
All appetites find such a just supply,
That you may still desire, still satisfy.
May present things with present pleasure pay,
Every contentment be entire, and way
To the next joy, may every new success
Recall the past, and make one happiness.
May you then all your joys reflected see
In other's breasts, may that reflection be
Powerful on you, and though none can project
Beams to reach you, yet what you cause, reflect.
May you not need the art to multiply
Joys, in the fancy's unsafe flattery;
But may your pleasures be still present, pure,
Diffusive, great, and in their truth, secure.
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