"I envy not your fortune, but admire."

"Fool that I was, I thought imperial Rome Like Mantua."

"Freedom, which came at length, though slow to come."

"The rest among the Britons he confined; A race of men from all the world disjoined."

"Trust not too much to that enchanting face; Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass."

"The trees are clothed with leaves, the fields with grass; The blossoms blow; the birds on bushes sing; And nature has…"

"From the great father of the gods above My muse begins: for all is full of Jove."

"So nice a difference in your singing lies, That both have won, or both deserved the prize."

"Now dam the ditches, and the floods restrain: Their moisture has already drenched the plain."

"Round the wide world in banishment we roam, Forced from our pleasing fields and native home."