Lucasta: The Poems of Richard LovelaceJ.R. Smith, 1864 - 293 pages |
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... kind , by no means favourable specimens . The translations from Catullus , Ausonius , & c . have been left as they stood ; they are , for the most part , destitute of merit ; but as they were inserted by the Poet's brother , when he ...
... kind , by no means favourable specimens . The translations from Catullus , Ausonius , & c . have been left as they stood ; they are , for the most part , destitute of merit ; but as they were inserted by the Poet's brother , when he ...
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... kind ) , The other paints the pictures of the mind In purer verse . And as rare Zeuxes fame Shin'd , till Apelles art eclips'd the same By a more exquisite and curious line In Zeuxeses ( with pensill far more fine ) , So have our modern ...
... kind ) , The other paints the pictures of the mind In purer verse . And as rare Zeuxes fame Shin'd , till Apelles art eclips'd the same By a more exquisite and curious line In Zeuxeses ( with pensill far more fine ) , So have our modern ...
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... kind how doe you call's us from the fit . Chorus . If then the spirits only stray , let mine Fly to thy bosome , and my soule to thine : Thus in our native seate we gladly give Our right for one , where we can better live . II . Lu ...
... kind how doe you call's us from the fit . Chorus . If then the spirits only stray , let mine Fly to thy bosome , and my soule to thine : Thus in our native seate we gladly give Our right for one , where we can better live . II . Lu ...
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... Amarantha weeps to see ' Mongst men such inhumanitie , i . e . the lady gathers the flowers , and binds them in her hair with a silken fillet , making of them a kind of chaplet or crown . That those , who do receive in hay , And POEMS . 63.
... Amarantha weeps to see ' Mongst men such inhumanitie , i . e . the lady gathers the flowers , and binds them in her hair with a silken fillet , making of them a kind of chaplet or crown . That those , who do receive in hay , And POEMS . 63.
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... kind desire , And in her beauteous crescent shone , Bright as the argent - horned moone . But see ! this whitenesse is obscure , Cynthia spotted , she impure ; Her body writheld , and her eyes 2 i . e . silvery or white milk . 2 An ...
... kind desire , And in her beauteous crescent shone , Bright as the argent - horned moone . But see ! this whitenesse is obscure , Cynthia spotted , she impure ; Her body writheld , and her eyes 2 i . e . silvery or white milk . 2 An ...
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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.