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[Page 120]
Recovering from a Fit of Sickness.
I.
1 WHen late the tyrannous Malady
2 With intermitted Rage
3 Seem'd to presage,
4 Or Suddain Health or Dissolution nigh;
5 False World (said I) that Steal'st my reall Joyes
6 Shuffling in stead thy changeling Toys:
7 Begone! I'le not be brib'd at any Rate
8 To sell m'approaching Fate,
9 And Re-assume that Toilsome Task to Live:
[Page 121]10 I prize not Grandieur, and I know
11 (Were I thy Favourite as I'm thy Foe)
12 What I affect, thou never canst bestow:
13 I'd have Content, but That was never Thine to give.
14 Remove that Taper from my sight,
15 Th' impertinent Light
16 Presents no gratefull Object to my View;
17 Ev'n those Fair Eyes that Planets once appear'd,
18 (The only Planets I rever'd)
19 To my dim sight, seem now t'have Lost their Lustre too
II.
20 Thus Musing as I Lay, to my Bedside
21 (Attir'd in all his Mourning Pride)
22 The King of Terrours came;
23 Awfull his Looks, but not deformed and Grim;
24 He's no such Bug-bear as we feign of Him,
25 Scarce we our selves so Civiliz'd and Tame!
26 Unknown the Doom assign'd me in this Change
27 For full Crimes and imperfect Penitence,
28 (Though justly I might dread the Strickt Revenge
29 Of an Enrag'd Omnipotence)
[Page 122]30 Yet with my present Griefs distrest,
31 With curious Thoughts of unknown Worlds possest
32 Inflam'd with Thirst of Liberty,
33 Long Lov'd, but nere Enjoy'd by me,
34 I su'd for Leave the fatall Gulf to Pass:
35 My Vitall Sand is almost run,
36 And Death (said I) will strike anon,
37 Then to dull Life I bid along Farewell;
38 But as the last grains fell,
39 Death faild my credulous Hopes, and Turn'd the Glass.
Source edition
Tate, Nahum, c. 1652-1715. Poems by N. Tate. London: Printed by T.M. for Benj. Tooke ..., 1677, pp. 120-122. [15],133p. (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Harding C 2953].)
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Other works by Nahum Tate
- Advice to a Friend, designing to Publish his Poems. ()
- Amor Sepulchralis. ()
- The Amorist. ()
- The Amusement. ()
- The Banquet. ()
- The Beldam's Song. ()
- The Challenge. ()
- The Choice. ()
- The Confinement. ()
- The Counter-Turn. ()
- The Cure. A Dialogue. ()
- Dialogue. Alexis and Laura. ()
- Disappointed. ()
- The Disconsolate. ()
- The Discovery. ()
- Disswasion of an Aged Friend from Leaving his Retirement. ()
- The Dream. ()
- The Escape. ()
- The Gold-hater. ()
- The Gratefull Shepheard. ()
- The Hurricane. ()
- The Ignorant. ()
- The Inconstant. A Paraphrase on the XV. Epod of Horace. ()
- The Indispos'd. ()
- The Ingrates. ()
- The Installment. ()
- Laura's Walk. ()
- The Male Content. ()
- [Martial] Lib. 1. Epigr. CX. De Issa Catellâ Publij. ()
- [Martial] Lib. 1. Epigr. IX. ()
- [Martial] Lib. 1. Epigr. XIV. De Arriâ & Paeto. ()
- [Martial] Lib. 9. Epigr: VI. ()
- [Martial] Lib. XI. Epigr. XCV. Translated in Dialogue. ()
- [Martial] Lib. XI. Epigr. XLIII. ()
- The Match. ()
- Melancholy. ()
- The Mid-Night Thought. ()
- ODE. To my Ingenious Friend Mr. Flatman. ()
- Of the Ape and the Fox. A Paraphrase on one of the Centum Fabulae. ()
- Of the Few Adherers to Virtue. ()
- On a deform'd Old Baw'd designing to have her Picture drawn. ()
- On a Diseased Old Man, who Wept at thought of leaving the World. ()
- On a Grave Sir retiring to Write in Order to undeceive the World. ()
- On an Old Miser that Hoarded his Treasure in a Steel Chest, and bury'd it. ()
- On Sight of some Martyr's Sepulchres. ()
- On Snow fall'n in Autumn, and dissolv'd by the Sun. ()
- ON THE Present Corrupted State OF POETRY. ()
- The Parting. ()
- The Pennance. ()
- The Politicians. ()
- The Prospect. ()
- The Request. ()
- The Requitall. ()
- The Restitution. ()
- The Round. ()
- The Search. ()
- Sliding on Skates in very hard Frost. ()
- Strephon's Complaint on quitting his Retirement. ()
- The Surprizal. ()
- The Tear. ()
- The three First Verses of the 46th Psalm Paraphras'd. ()
- To a Desponding Friend. ()
- TO Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN ON HIS Excellent POEMS. ()
- The Unconfin'd. ()
- The Usurpers. ()
- The Vision, Written in a dangerous fit of Sickness. ()
- The Vow-Breaker. ()
- The Voyagers. ()