Sir John Denham
Poet, 1615-1669
Cited as Denham. — 81 quotations
Apparel
Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young.
Calmly
The gentle stream which calmly flows.
Calmness
The gentle calmness of the flood.
Carouse
Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape.
Causeless
My fears are causeless and ungrounded.
Clash
Clashes between popes and kings.
Clear
The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear.
Commiserate
Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate.
Compass
How can you hope to compass your designs?
Conscience
The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
Contemplative
Fixed and contemplative their looks.
Convivial
Which feasts convivial meetings we did name.
Copy
I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
Curb
By these men, religion,that should be The curb, is made the spur of tyranny.
Disesteem
But if this sacred gift you disesteem.
Dive
The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame.
Door
To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead.
Drag
Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust.
Effect
No other in effect than what it seems.
Embrace
Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced.
Essential
Judgment's more essential to a general Than courage.
Fall
They thy fall conspire.
Fare
So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
Fluent
With most fluent utterance.
For
For he writes not for money, nor for praise.
Foreigner
Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts.
Foreshow
Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows.
Gape
The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes.
Gem
From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem.
Goblet
We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned.
Haul
Some dance, some haul the rope.
Heel
He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, His winged heels and then his armed head.
Himself
With shame remembers, while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
Idol
The soldier's god and people's idol.
Ignorant
Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach?
Immaculate
Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate.
Improve
I love not to improve the honor of the living by impairing that of the dead.
Infuse
That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse.
Labyrinth
I' the maze and winding labyrinths o' the world.
League
And let there be 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
Liberality
That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay.
Medium
I must bring together All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.
Meliorate
Nature by art we nobly meliorate.
Neglect
Age breeds neglect in all.
Plea
No plea must serve; 't is cruelty to spare.
Prosperous
A happy passage and a prosperous wind.
Reprieve
All that I ask is but a short reprieve, ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve.
Repulse
By fate repelled, and with repulses tired.
Respite
Some pause and respite only I require.
Resume
The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave.
Retrench
Thy exuberant parts retrench.
Rigor
All his rigor is turned to grief and pity.
Ripeness
Time, which made them their fame outlive, To Cowley scarce did ripeness give.
Shadow
Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise.
Shape
To the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor speed nor art avail, he shapes his course.
Shine
Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster.
Singular
So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect.
Sobriety
Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad.
Somebody
We must draw in somebody that may stand 'Twixt us and danger.
Stem
[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
Stir
Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir?
Stock
Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus.
Store
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Strain
He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth Is forced and strained.
Stray
Thames among the wanton valleys strays.
Strive
Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
Substantial
If happinessbe a substantial good.
Superstruction
My own profession hath taught me not to erect new superstructions upon an old ruin.
Suspend
The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near At once suspends their courage and their fear.
Suspense
Ten days the prophet in suspense remained.
Their
Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs.
To
Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage.
Toil
As a Numidian lion, when first caught, Endures the toil that holds him.
Top
But wind about till thou hast topped the hill.
Trace
That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line.
Trust
Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
Turn
His turn will come to laugh at you again.
Untie
They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
Wall
The terror of his name that walls us in.
Weed
Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.
Well-natured
Well-natured, temperate, and wise.