EDMUND WALLER TO A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE STRANGE, that such horror and such grace Should dwell together in one place : 'Tis innocence, and youth, which makes By this and by her coldness barr'd, Thrice happy Snake, that in her sleeve Contented in that nest of snow Take heed, fair Eve! you do not make A marble one so warm'd would speak. TO MY YOUNG LADY LUCY SIDNEY HY came I so untimely forth WHY Into a world which, wanting thee, Or shadow of felicity, That time should me so far remove Yet, Fairest Blossom! do not slight And milder glory to the noon; And then what wonders shall you do Hope waits upon the flowery prime ; Of declination or decay: For with a full hand that does bring AN APOLOGY FOR HAVING LOVED BEFORE HEY that never had the use THEY Of the grape's surprizing juice So they that are to love inclined, Make a present of their heart. But whom dying we approve. To man, that was in the evening made, But when the bright Sun did appear And could no longer rise: He neither might nor wish'd to know For that, as mine your beauties now, TO A LADY WHO GAVE HIM A LOST COPY OF A POEM NOTHING lies hid from radiant eyes; All they subdue become their spies; No wonder then that a lost thought Should there be found where souls are caught. The picture of fair Venus (that For which men say the Goddess sat) STAY, PHEŒBUS! TAY, Phoebus ! stay! STA The world to which you fly so fast, Conveying day From us to them, can pay your haste With no such object nor salute your rise With no such wonder as De Mornay's eyes. Well does this prove The error of those antique books Which made you move About the world: Her charming looks Would fix your beams, and make it ever day, Did not the rolling earth snatch her away. SIR JOHN SUCKLING I A BALLAD OF A WEDDING TELL thee, DICK! where I have been, O, things beyond compare ! At Charing-Cross, hard by the way Amongst the rest One pest'lent fine, Our Landlord looks like nothing to him; At course-a-park, without all doubt, |