Lucasta: The Poems of Richard LovelaceJ.R. Smith, 1864 - 293 pages |
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... earth been bright as ayre , We had knowne neither place . Indians smell not their neast ; A Swisse or Finne tastes best The spices of the East . 1 i . e . Lucasta . 2 The East was celebrated by all our early poets as the land of spices ...
... earth been bright as ayre , We had knowne neither place . Indians smell not their neast ; A Swisse or Finne tastes best The spices of the East . 1 i . e . Lucasta . 2 The East was celebrated by all our early poets as the land of spices ...
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... earth , she will love me ? IV . Faine would I be in love with War , As my deare just avenging star ; This was written , perhaps , during the poet's confinement in Peterhouse , to which he was committed a prisoner on his return from ...
... earth , she will love me ? IV . Faine would I be in love with War , As my deare just avenging star ; This was written , perhaps , during the poet's confinement in Peterhouse , to which he was committed a prisoner on his return from ...
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... earth , lends it to all ; When seeking to ecclipse his right , Blinded we stand in our owne light . XIII . And now an universall mist Of error is spread or'e each breast , With such a fury edg'd as is Not found in th ' inwards of th ...
... earth , lends it to all ; When seeking to ecclipse his right , Blinded we stand in our owne light . XIII . And now an universall mist Of error is spread or'e each breast , With such a fury edg'd as is Not found in th ' inwards of th ...
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... 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. HAT frantick errour I adore , And am confirm'd the earth turns round ; Now satisfied o're and o're , As ...
... 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. HAT frantick errour I adore , And am confirm'd the earth turns round ; Now satisfied o're and o're , As ...
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... earth , Where blood and dearth Raigne ' stead of kings , agen Wafte thy selfe over , and lest storms from far Arise , bring in our sight The seas delight , Lucasta , that bright northerne star . Alex . But as we cut the rugged deepe , I ...
... earth , Where blood and dearth Raigne ' stead of kings , agen Wafte thy selfe over , and lest storms from far Arise , bring in our sight The seas delight , Lucasta , that bright northerne star . Alex . But as we cut the rugged deepe , I ...
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Page 26 - Though seas and land betwixt us both, Our faith and troth, Like separated souls, All time and space controls : Above the highest sphere we meet Unseen, unknown ; and greet as Angels greet. So then we do anticipate Our after-fate, And are alive i...
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 27 - 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 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 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 38 - Such was Zuleika, such around her shone The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone — The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And oh! that eye was in itself a Soul...
Page 25 - Seas IF to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone You or I were alone ; Then, my Lucasta, might I crave Pity from blustering wind, or swallowing wave. But...
Page 83 - And in her, all the Deities. Each step trod out a Lover's thought And the Ambitious hopes he brought...
Page 238 - But He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had almost forgot his poetry, Though to say the truth (and Apollo did know it) He might have been both his priest and his poet.
Page 272 - Nunc te cognovi : quare etsi impensius uror, Multo mi tamen es vilior et levior. Qui potis est ? inquis.