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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... tree In bulke , doth make man better bee ; Or standing long an Oake , three hundred yeare , To fall a logge at last , dry , bald , and seare : A Lillie of a Day , Is fairer farre , in May , Although it fall , and die that night ; It was ...
... tree In bulke , doth make man better bee ; Or standing long an Oake , three hundred yeare , To fall a logge at last , dry , bald , and seare : A Lillie of a Day , Is fairer farre , in May , Although it fall , and die that night ; It was ...
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... tree . The palma - christi , and the fair papà , Now but a seed , ( preventing nature's law ) In half the circle of the hasty year Project a shade , and lovely fruit do wear . And as their trees , in our dull region set , But faintly ...
... tree . The palma - christi , and the fair papà , Now but a seed , ( preventing nature's law ) In half the circle of the hasty year Project a shade , and lovely fruit do wear . And as their trees , in our dull region set , But faintly ...
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... Trees ! where s'eer your barkes I wound , No Name shall but your own be found . IV When we have run our Passions heat , Love hither makes his best retreat . The Gods , that mortal Beauty chase , Still in a Tree did end their race ...
... Trees ! where s'eer your barkes I wound , No Name shall but your own be found . IV When we have run our Passions heat , Love hither makes his best retreat . The Gods , that mortal Beauty chase , Still in a Tree did end their race ...
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Ben Jonson | 3 |
Her man described by her owne Dictamen | 9 |
Abraham Cowley cont | 16 |
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