Lucasta: The Poems of Richard LovelaceJ.R. Smith, 1864 - 293 pages |
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... glorious queen , whose pregnant wombe Brings forth a kingdome with her first - borne Sonne , Marke but the subjects joyfull hearts and eyes : Some offer gold , and others sacrifice ; This slayes a lambe , that , not so rich as hee ...
... glorious queen , whose pregnant wombe Brings forth a kingdome with her first - borne Sonne , Marke but the subjects joyfull hearts and eyes : Some offer gold , and others sacrifice ; This slayes a lambe , that , not so rich as hee ...
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... or Finne tastes best The spices of the East.2 1 i . e . Lucasta . 2 The East was celebrated by all our early poets as the land of spices and rich gums : - - III . So from the glorious Sunne Who to his POEMS . 27 A Paradox.
... or Finne tastes best The spices of the East.2 1 i . e . Lucasta . 2 The East was celebrated by all our early poets as the land of spices and rich gums : - - III . So from the glorious Sunne Who to his POEMS . 27 A Paradox.
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... glorious Sunne Who to his height hath got , With what delight we runne To some black cave or grot ! And , heav'nly Sydney you Twice read , had rather view Some odde romance so new . IV . The god , that constant keepes Unto his deities ...
... glorious Sunne Who to his height hath got , With what delight we runne To some black cave or grot ! And , heav'nly Sydney you Twice read , had rather view Some odde romance so new . IV . The god , that constant keepes Unto his deities ...
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... gloriously show'd it ; And for a morning - cushionet On's mother he bestow'd it . VI . Each day , with her small brazen stings , A thousand times she rac'd it ; But then at night , bright with her gemmes , Once neere her breast she plac ...
... gloriously show'd it ; And for a morning - cushionet On's mother he bestow'd it . VI . Each day , with her small brazen stings , A thousand times she rac'd it ; But then at night , bright with her gemmes , Once neere her breast she plac ...
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... glorious light Of both those stars , which of3 their spheres bereft , Only the gellie's left . Then changed thus , no more I'm bound to you , Then swearing to a saint that proves untrue . i . e . at once , immediately . 2 Her eyebrows ...
... glorious light Of both those stars , which of3 their spheres bereft , Only the gellie's left . Then changed thus , no more I'm bound to you , Then swearing to a saint that proves untrue . i . e . at once , immediately . 2 Her eyebrows ...
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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.