The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... flames , so sweet reviving force contains , That , like Arabia's bird , my wasted heart , Made quick by death , more lively still remains . I joy , though oft my waking eyes spend tears , I never want delight , even when I groan , Best ...
... flames , so sweet reviving force contains , That , like Arabia's bird , my wasted heart , Made quick by death , more lively still remains . I joy , though oft my waking eyes spend tears , I never want delight , even when I groan , Best ...
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... flames , thy mantle bright with flow'rs , The zephyrs curl the green locks of the plain , The clouds for joy in pearls weep down their show'rs . Sweet Spring , thou com'st - but , ah ! my pleasant hours , And happy days , with thee come ...
... flames , thy mantle bright with flow'rs , The zephyrs curl the green locks of the plain , The clouds for joy in pearls weep down their show'rs . Sweet Spring , thou com'st - but , ah ! my pleasant hours , And happy days , with thee come ...
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... flame himself instals , And shameless it in tears and blood doth drown ; Her beauty spoil'd , her citizens made thralls , His spite yet cannot so her all throw down , But that some statue , pillar of renown , Yet lurks unmaim'd within ...
... flame himself instals , And shameless it in tears and blood doth drown ; Her beauty spoil'd , her citizens made thralls , His spite yet cannot so her all throw down , But that some statue , pillar of renown , Yet lurks unmaim'd within ...
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... flames than his whose cunning wrought That brazen bull , where he intomb'd did fry ; Then sure is love the causer of such woes , Be ye our lovers , or our mortal foes . V. AND would you then shake off Love's golden chain , With which it ...
... flames than his whose cunning wrought That brazen bull , where he intomb'd did fry ; Then sure is love the causer of such woes , Be ye our lovers , or our mortal foes . V. AND would you then shake off Love's golden chain , With which it ...
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... courts the flame , and in the same doth die ! That hath a light delight , Poor fool ! contented only with a sight ; When this doth sport , and swell with dearest food 32 DRUMMOND . Melampus's Epitaph, The happiness of a Flea,
... courts the flame , and in the same doth die ! That hath a light delight , Poor fool ! contented only with a sight ; When this doth sport , and swell with dearest food 32 DRUMMOND . Melampus's Epitaph, The happiness of a Flea,
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 37 Ezekiel Sanford,Robert Walsh, Jr. No preview available - 2015 |
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ALEXANDER BROME arms beauty birth Birtha blest blood born breast breath bright call'd CASTARA CHARLES COTTON clouds crown death delight dost doth e'er Earth eyes face fair fame fate fear fire flames floods flowers GEORGE WITHER golden Goltho Gondibert grace grief hand haste hath haue head heart Heaven hope jemme king kiss light live look lord lov'd love's lovers Lyrian maid mind Muse ne'er neere never night nymph o'er PHINEAS FLETCHER POEMS poet poor pow'r prince queen quoth Rhodalind RICHARD CRASHAW ROBERT HERRICK rocks seas seem'd shade shepheards shine shore sighs sight sing sleep smile song sorrow soul spide spring stars streams swaine sweet tears tell thee Thetis thine thou thought tongue twas twixt unto Venus vertue wanton waves weep whence Whilst WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT WILLIAM DAVENANT WILLIAM HABINGTON winds wings woods wound youth
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Page 326 - To BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last.
Page 325 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see 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.
Page 325 - 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. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 327 - Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave: And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.
Page 338 - If thy verse do bravely tower, As she makes wing she gets power ; Yet the higher she doth soar, She's affronted still the more : Till she to the high'st hath past, Then she rests with fame at last.
Page 32 - Cease, dreams, the images of day-desires, To model forth the passions of the morrow; Never let rising sun approve you liars, To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow. Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain, And never wake to feel the day's disdain.
Page 180 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 339 - By a daisy, whose leaves, spread, Shut when Titan goes to bed, Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me Than all Nature's beauties can In some other wiser man.
Page 177 - t: For had not her care furnisht you out With something of handsome, without all doubt You and your sorry Lady Muse had been In the number of those that were not let in. In haste from the court two or three came in, And they brought letters (forsooth) from the Queen; Twas discreetly done, too, for if th' had come Without them, th' had scarce been let into the room.
Page 116 - It is a yea, it is a nay ; A pretty kind of sporting fray ; It is a thing will soon away ; Then, nymphs, take 'vantage while ye may ; And this is love, as I hear say.