Lucasta: The Poems of Richard Lovelace,esq. Now First Edited, and the Text Carefully Revised. With Some Account of the Author, and a Few NotesJ. R. Smith, 1864 - 293 pages |
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... behold Her smiles ' divinity ! They fann'd this heat , and thaw'd that cold , So fram'd up a new sky . Thus earth , from flames and ice repreev'd , E're since hath in her sun - shine liv'd . THE APOSTACY OF ONE , AND BUT ONE LADY . I ...
... behold Her smiles ' divinity ! They fann'd this heat , and thaw'd that cold , So fram'd up a new sky . Thus earth , from flames and ice repreev'd , E're since hath in her sun - shine liv'd . THE APOSTACY OF ONE , AND BUT ONE LADY . I ...
Page 55
... behold a watches hand To stir , nor plants or flowers to grow ; Must we infer that this doth stand , And therefore , that those do not blow ? This she acts calmer , like Heav'ns brand , The stedfast lightning , slow loves dart , She ...
... behold a watches hand To stir , nor plants or flowers to grow ; Must we infer that this doth stand , And therefore , that those do not blow ? This she acts calmer , like Heav'ns brand , The stedfast lightning , slow loves dart , She ...
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... Behold ! how lightning like a taper flyes , And guilds your chari't , but ashamed dyes , Seeing it selfe out - gloried by your eyes . V. Threatning and boystrous tempests gently bow , And to your steps part in soft paths , when now ...
... Behold ! how lightning like a taper flyes , And guilds your chari't , but ashamed dyes , Seeing it selfe out - gloried by your eyes . V. Threatning and boystrous tempests gently bow , And to your steps part in soft paths , when now ...
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... behold ! againe I bowe : Againe possest , againe I woe ; From my heat hath taken fire Damas , noble youth , and fries , 1 Gazing with one of mine eyes , Damas , halfe of me expires : Chloe , behold ! Our fate's the same . Or make me ...
... behold ! againe I bowe : Againe possest , againe I woe ; From my heat hath taken fire Damas , noble youth , and fries , 1 Gazing with one of mine eyes , Damas , halfe of me expires : Chloe , behold ! Our fate's the same . Or make me ...
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... Behold ! flew in two cherubins , Cleare as the skye from whence they came , And brighter than the sacred flame ; The boy adorn'd with modesty , Yet armed so with majesty , That if the Thunderer againe His eagle sends , she stoops in ...
... Behold ! flew in two cherubins , Cleare as the skye from whence they came , And brighter than the sacred flame ; The boy adorn'd with modesty , Yet armed so with majesty , That if the Thunderer againe His eagle sends , she stoops in ...
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agen Amarantha Amyntor Arachne armes AUSONIUS Ayres Ayres and Dialogues beams beauty behold blest blisse brave breast breath bright Charles Cotton chast Chloris Cotgrave crowne death divine dombe doth e're earth Edward Filmer ELLINDA Endymion Porter ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear fire fixt flame flye glorious glory Gloucester Hall hair hand hast hath heart heav'n HENRY LAWES honour imbrace joyes Kentish Petition King kisse lady Lady Lovelace light lines live lov'd Lovelace's lover Lucasta ne'r neer night noble nought Original reads play poem poet pow'r printed Richard Lovelace sacred shal shine sing smile soft SONG soule sphere star Sunne sweet teare thee thine thou dost thought toad unto verses vertue virgin voyce weep Whilst WILLIAM LAWES winds wings word wound
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Page 26 - TELL me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.
Page 117 - 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 13 - infection of our times. That candid Age no other way could tell / To be ingenious, but by speaking well. Who best could prayse, had then the greatest prayse, Twas more...
Page xiv - Hall in the beginning of the year 1634, and in that of his age sixteen, being then accounted the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld ; a person also of innate modesty, virtue, and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex.
Page 168 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her 15 meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 96 - Night, as clear HESPER, shall our tapers whip From the light casements where we play; And the dark Hag, from her black mantle strip; And stick there, everlasting Day! Thus richer than untempted Kings are we; That, asking nothing, nothing need! Though Lord of all what seas embrace; yet he That wants himself, is poor indeed!
Page 119 - Stone Walls doe not a Prison make, Nor I'ron bars a Cage; Mindes innocent and quiet take That for an Hermitage; If I have freedome in my Love, And in my soule am free; Angels alone that sore above, Injoy such liberty.
Page 136 - GIVE me more love, or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none: Either extreme, of love or hate, Is sweeter than a calm estate.
Page 43 - Twere possible I might call mine. First I would be in love with Peace, And her rich swelling breasts increase; But how alas!
Page 272 - Dilexi tum te non tantum ut vulgus amicam, Sed pater ut gnatos diligit et generos. Nunc te cognovi : quare etsi impensius uror, Multo mi tamen es vilior et levior. Qui potis est ? inquis.