Seventeenth-century English Poetry, Volume 2Miriam Kosh Starkman Knopf, 1967 - Civilization, Modern Volume 1 includes writings by John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, and Richard Crashaw. |
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... beauty is celebrated , and the game of love is played , often ironically , seldom cynically . External nature is his most direct referent , source of beauty , joy , and mutability . " The Spring " brings beauty to all the world , but ...
... beauty is celebrated , and the game of love is played , often ironically , seldom cynically . External nature is his most direct referent , source of beauty , joy , and mutability . " The Spring " brings beauty to all the world , but ...
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... beauty threatned Know Celia , ( since thou art so proud , ) ' Twas I that gave thee thy renowne : Thou hadst , in the forgotten crowd Of common beauties , liv'd unknowne , Had not my verse exhal'd thy name , And with it , ympt the wings ...
... beauty threatned Know Celia , ( since thou art so proud , ) ' Twas I that gave thee thy renowne : Thou hadst , in the forgotten crowd Of common beauties , liv'd unknowne , Had not my verse exhal'd thy name , And with it , ympt the wings ...
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... Beauty like a shadow flies , And our youth before us dies . Or would youth and beauty stay , Love hath wings , and will away . Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to heaven does climb . Gods , that never change their ...
... Beauty like a shadow flies , And our youth before us dies . Or would youth and beauty stay , Love hath wings , and will away . Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to heaven does climb . Gods , that never change their ...
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Ben Jonson | 3 |
Her man described by her owne Dictamen | 9 |
Abraham Cowley cont | 16 |
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