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Page 192 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit : Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.
Page 154 - By all the heav'ns thou hast in him, Fair sister of the seraphim! By all of him we have in thee, Leave nothing of myself in me: Let me so read thy life that I Unto all life of mine may die.
Page 52 - My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither.
Page 186 - THE WISH. Well then ; I now do plainly see, This busy world and I shall ne'er agree ; The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy, And they, methinks, deserve my pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th...
Page 186 - I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both -true, Both wise, and both delightful too! And since Love ne'er will from me flee, — A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian-angels are, Only beloved, and loving me!
Page 53 - Come, come, my lord, untie your folded thoughts, And let them dangle loose, as a bride's hair.
Page 121 - Gods' protection, but the night before ; Follow me weeping to my turf, and there Let fall a primrose, and with it a tear : Then lastly, let some weekly strewings be Devoted to the memory of me ; Then shall my ghost not walk about, but keep Still in the cool and silent shades of sleep.
Page 161 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye In shady leaves of destiny...
Page 126 - WHEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS VERSES READ. In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse ; But when that men have both well drunk, and fed, Let my enchantments then be sung or read. When laurel spirts i...