StoryTitle("caps", "The Wish") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Well then! I now do plainly see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The very honey of all earthly joy ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Does of all meats the soonest cloy; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And they, methinks, deserve my pity", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who for it can endure the stings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The crowd and buzz and murmurings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of this great hive, the city. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, yet, ere I descend to the grave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May I a small house and large garden have; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a few friends, and many books, both true, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Both wise, and both delightful too! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And since love ne'er will from me flee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Mistress moderately fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And good as guardian angels are, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Only beloved and loving me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O fountains! when in you shall I ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Myself eased of unpeaceful thoughts espy? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O fields! O woods! when, when shall I be made ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy happy tenant of your shade? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Here's the spring-head of Pleasure's flood: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here's wealthy Nature's treasury, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where all the riches lie that she ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Has coin'd and stamp'd for good. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pride and ambition here ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Only in far-fetch'd metaphors appear; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here nought but winds can hurtful murmurs scatter, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And nought but Echo flatter. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The gods, when they descended, hither ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From heaven did always choose their way: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And therefore we may boldly say ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That 'tis the way too thither. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How happy here should I ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And one dear She live, and embracing die! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She who is all the world, and can exclude ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In deserts solitude. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I should have then this only fear: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lest men, when they my pleasures see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should hither throng to live like me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And so make a city here.", "") ?>
Poet("Abraham Cowley", "1618–1667") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>