Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, Volume 3H. Washbourne, 1845 - English poetry |
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Page 76
... nature Joined with a lovely feature ? Be she meeker , kinder , than Turtle - dove or pelican ; If she be not so to me , What care I how kind she be ? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love ? Or her merit's value2 known ...
... nature Joined with a lovely feature ? Be she meeker , kinder , than Turtle - dove or pelican ; If she be not so to me , What care I how kind she be ? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love ? Or her merit's value2 known ...
Page 89
... nature's beauties can In some other wiser man . By her help I also now Make this churlish place allow Some things that may sweeten gladness In the very gall of sadness . The dull loneness , the black shade That these hanging vaults have ...
... nature's beauties can In some other wiser man . By her help I also now Make this churlish place allow Some things that may sweeten gladness In the very gall of sadness . The dull loneness , the black shade That these hanging vaults have ...
Page 93
... nature reel . My hopeless heart , despairing of relief , Sinks underneath the heavy weight of saddest grief , Which hath so ruthless torn , so rack'd , so tortur'd every vein ; All comfort comes too late to have it ever cur'd again . My ...
... nature reel . My hopeless heart , despairing of relief , Sinks underneath the heavy weight of saddest grief , Which hath so ruthless torn , so rack'd , so tortur'd every vein ; All comfort comes too late to have it ever cur'd again . My ...
Page 94
... Nature's Embassie , " 1621 , 8vo . ] IF marriage life yields such content , What heavy hap have I ! Whose life with grief and sorrow spent , Wish death , yet cannot die . She's bent to smile when I do storm , When I am cheerful too She ...
... Nature's Embassie , " 1621 , 8vo . ] IF marriage life yields such content , What heavy hap have I ! Whose life with grief and sorrow spent , Wish death , yet cannot die . She's bent to smile when I do storm , When I am cheerful too She ...
Page 100
... Nature did her so much right , As she scorns the help of art ; In as many virtues dight As e'er yet embrac'd a heart ; So much good , so truly tried , Some for less were deified . Wit she hath , without desire To make known how much she ...
... Nature did her so much right , As she scorns the help of art ; In as many virtues dight As e'er yet embrac'd a heart ; So much good , so truly tried , Some for less were deified . Wit she hath , without desire To make known how much she ...
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