| John Dryden (1631–1700). The Poems of John Dryden. 1913. | | | | Songs from the Plays | | Song to Apollo, from Œdipus |
| | | Phœbus, God belov’d by men; | |
| At thy dawn, ev’ry Beast is rouz’d in his Den; | |
| At thy Setting, all the Birds of thy absence complain, | |
| And we dye, all dye till the morning comes again, | |
| Phœbus, God belov’d by men! | 5 |
| Idol of the Eastern Kings, | |
| Awful as the God who flings | |
| His Thunder round, and the Lightning wings; | |
| God of Songs, and Orphean Strings, | |
| Who to this mortal bosom brings | 10 |
| All harmonious heav’nly Things! | |
| Thy drouzie Prophet to revive, | |
| Ten thousand thousand forms before him drive; | |
| With Chariots and Horses all o’ Fire awake him, | |
| Convulsions, and Furies, and Prophesies shake him: | 15 |
| Let him tell it in Groans, tho’ he bend with the load, | |
| Tho’ he burst with the weight of the terrible God. | | | | |
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