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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... dost in desert woodlands sing . " In the poem called " The Grasshopper " ( p . 94 ) , the author speaks of the insect as " Drunk ev'ry night with a delicious tear , Dropped thee from heaven . " - The similarity , in each case , I ...
... dost in desert woodlands sing . " In the poem called " The Grasshopper " ( p . 94 ) , the author speaks of the insect as " Drunk ev'ry night with a delicious tear , Dropped thee from heaven . " - The similarity , in each case , I ...
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... dost thou inherit , That , not contented with one single fame , Dost to a double glory spread thy name , And on thy happy temples safely set Both th ' Delphick wreath and civic coronet ? Was't not enough for us to know how far Thou ...
... dost thou inherit , That , not contented with one single fame , Dost to a double glory spread thy name , And on thy happy temples safely set Both th ' Delphick wreath and civic coronet ? Was't not enough for us to know how far Thou ...
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... Ah Lucasta , why so good ? Blest with an unstained flood Flowing both through soule and blood ; If it be not understood , " Tis a Diamond in mud . V. Lucasta ! stay ! why dost thou flye ? 50 POEMS . To Lucasta Ode Lyrick.
... Ah Lucasta , why so good ? Blest with an unstained flood Flowing both through soule and blood ; If it be not understood , " Tis a Diamond in mud . V. Lucasta ! stay ! why dost thou flye ? 50 POEMS . To Lucasta Ode Lyrick.
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... dost thou flye ? Thou art not bright but to the eye , Nor chaste but in the mariage - tye , Nor great but in this treasurie , Nor good but in that sanctitie . VI . Harder then the Orient stone , Like an apparition , Or as a pale shadow ...
... dost thou flye ? Thou art not bright but to the eye , Nor chaste but in the mariage - tye , Nor great but in this treasurie , Nor good but in that sanctitie . VI . Harder then the Orient stone , Like an apparition , Or as a pale shadow ...
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... dost in- tombe , As in the inmost cell of all earths wombe . II . Sacred Lucasta , like the pow'rfull ray Of heavenly truth , passe this Cimmerian way , Whilst all the standards of your beames display . III . Arise and climbe our ...
... dost in- tombe , As in the inmost cell of all earths wombe . II . Sacred Lucasta , like the pow'rfull ray Of heavenly truth , passe this Cimmerian way , Whilst all the standards of your beames display . III . Arise and climbe our ...
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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.