| Cowardice. |
| Alone, the coward is his shadow's slave: Spectators make the vain enact the brave. |
| Criticism. |
| Truth, taste, and learning, twine the living three, And thou, O critic, shalt my Hermes be. |
| Delusion. |
| For seven years only will this world be seen, Says one; but hires a mansion for fourteen. |
| Detraction. |
| Like a bad habit oft this vice prevails, Some nibble characters as some their nails. |
| Difference in judging Others. |
| The bad condemn with savagery and sneer, The good arraign in sorrow and in fear. |
| Dreams. |
| Sleep hath drugged Reason; Fancy Memory weds; Lo, the wild offspring with a hundred heads. |
| Duty to God. |
| What frenzy dreams of an unpunctual sun? Lord, as in Heaven, on Earth Thy Will be done. |
| Earth. |
| To him who sets on earth his only care, Life is idolatry, and Death despair. |
| Elevated Nonentity. |
| Through all these years attendance thus to dance, To gain a public insignificance! |
| Enthusiasts. |
| But for such flight, although it frantic seems, Spirits would crawl; no mean without extremes. |