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... doth at midnight reign , The darkness flies , and light is hurled Round about the silent world : So as alike thou driv'st away Both light and darkness , night and day.1 This is beautiful and fanciful poetry . It is hyperbolic to a ...
... doth at midnight reign , The darkness flies , and light is hurled Round about the silent world : So as alike thou driv'st away Both light and darkness , night and day.1 This is beautiful and fanciful poetry . It is hyperbolic to a ...
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... doth sing Unto that Providence , whose unseen arm Curbed them , and clothed thee well and warm.1 1 The Bird , Sacred Poems of Vaughan , ed . Lyte , 1891 , p . 174 . In Vaughan's mysticism we have a more general trait of lvi INTRODUCTION .
... doth sing Unto that Providence , whose unseen arm Curbed them , and clothed thee well and warm.1 1 The Bird , Sacred Poems of Vaughan , ed . Lyte , 1891 , p . 174 . In Vaughan's mysticism we have a more general trait of lvi INTRODUCTION .
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... doth ever waken Thoughts , chained up in busy snares Of continual woes and cares : Love and griefs are so exprest As they rather sigh than rest . Fly hence , shadows , that do keep Watchful sorrows charmed in sleep . JOHN FORD , The ...
... doth ever waken Thoughts , chained up in busy snares Of continual woes and cares : Love and griefs are so exprest As they rather sigh than rest . Fly hence , shadows , that do keep Watchful sorrows charmed in sleep . JOHN FORD , The ...
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... away . Youth may revel , yet it must Lie down in a bed of dust . Earthly honors flow and waste , Time alone doth change and last . ΙΟ 5 10 5 IO Sorrows mingled with contents prepare Rest for care ; Love 8 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LYRICS .
... away . Youth may revel , yet it must Lie down in a bed of dust . Earthly honors flow and waste , Time alone doth change and last . ΙΟ 5 10 5 IO Sorrows mingled with contents prepare Rest for care ; Love 8 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LYRICS .
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... doth much less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits endu❜th . Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot , however mean or high , Toward which Time leads me , and ...
... doth much less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits endu❜th . Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot , however mean or high , Toward which Time leads me , and ...
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Page 169 - Dear, beauteous death; the Jewel of the Just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!
Page 80 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 134 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates — When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 22 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Page 217 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 159 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 218 - Grand Chorus As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the Blest above; So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Page 21 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 12 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again; So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night.
Page 23 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even...