Famous Defraud Poems by Famous Poets

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Absalom And Achitophel

...teps proclaim,
And stammering babes are taught to lisp thy name.
How long wilt thou the general joy detain;
Starve, and defraud the people of thy reign?
Content ingloriously to pass thy days
Like one of virtue's fools that feeds on praise;
Till thy fresh glories, which now shine so bright,
Grow stale and tarnish with our daily sight.
Believe me, royal youth, thy fruit must be,
Or gather'd ripe, or rot upon the tree.
Heav'n has to all allotted, soon or late,
Some lucky revolut...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John


Apology To Delia: For Desiring A Lock Of Her Hair

...could specify,
Some twenty score at least.

Trust me, my dear, however odd
It may appear to say,
I sought it merely to defraud
Thy spoiler of his prey.

Yes! when its sister locks shall fade,
As quickly fade they must,
When all their beauties are decayed,
Their gloss, their colour, lost— 

Ah then! if haply to my share
Some slender pittance fall,
If I but gain one single hair,
Nor age usurp them all;— 

When you behold it still as sleek,
As lovely to the view,
As when it lef...Read more of this...
by Cowper, William

Hymn to Demeter by Homer

...re here, you shall rule all that lives and moves and shall have the greatest rights among the deathless gods: those who defraud you and do not appease your power with offerings, reverently performing rites and paying fit gifts, shall be punished for evermore."

When he said this, wise Persephone was filled with joy and hastily sprang up for gladness. But he on his part secretly gave her sweet pomegranate seed to eat, taking care for himself that she might not remain continu...Read more of this...
by Homer,

Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book

...road defend,
At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend;
How shall the Muse, from such a monarch steal
An hour, and not defraud the public weal?
Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame,
And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name,
After a life of gen'rous toils endur'd,
The Gaul subdu'd, or property secur'd,
Ambition humbled, mighty cities storm'd,
Or laws establish'd, and the world reform'd;
Clos'd their long glories with a sigh, to find
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

Octaves

...clean wisdom, and strong skill. 

XXI 

To curse the chilled insistence of the dawn
Because the free gleam lingers; to defraud
The constant opportunity that lives
Unchallenged in all sorrow; to forget
For this large prodigality of gold
That larger generosity of thought, -- 
These are the fleshly clogs of human greed,
The fundamental blunders of mankind. 

XXII 

Forebodings are the fiends of Recreance;
The master of the moment, the clean seer
Of ages, too securely scans what...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


Psalm 37 part 2

...he sons of need;
His mem'ry to long ages lives,
And blessed is his seed.

His lips abhor to talk profane,
To slander or defraud;
His ready tongue declares to men
What he has learned of God.

The law and gospel of the Lord
Deep in his heart abide;
Led by the Spirit and the word,
His feet shall never slide.

When sinners fall, the righteous stand,
Preserved from every snare;
They shall possess the promised land,
And dwell for ever there....Read more of this...
by Watts, Isaac

The Medal

...l; 
They boast e'en when each other they beguile. 
Customs to steal is such a trivial thing 
That 'tis their charter to defraud their King. 
All hands unite of every jarring sect; 
They cheat the country first, and then infect. 
They for God's cause their monarchs dare dethrone, 
And they'll be sure to make His cause their own. 
Whether the plotting Jesuit laid the plan 
Of murdering kings, or the French Puritan, 
Our sacrilegious sects their guides outgo 
And kings and kingl...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

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