Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

Or Passage of his Spirits to choak,

Whose Flame's so pure, that it sends up no Smoak."—Cowley.

Or lastly, the four first and two last may be in the following rhyme, and the fifth a blank verse; as,

"Thou robb'st my Days of Bus'ness and Delights,

Of Sleep thou robb'st my Nights.

Ah lovely Thief! what wilt thou do?

What, rob me of Heav'n too!

Thou e'en my Prayers dost from me steal,

And I with wild Idolatry

Begin to God, and end them all in thee."—Cowley.