Lucasta: The Poems of Richard Lovelace, Now First Edited, and the Text Carefully Revised. With Some Account of the Author, and a Few Notes |
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... sing . " In the poem called " The Grasshopper " ( p . 94 ) , the author speaks of the insect as " Drunk ev'ry night with a delicious tear , Dropped thee from heaven . " - The similarity , in each case , I believe to have been en- tirely ...
... sing . " In the poem called " The Grasshopper " ( p . 94 ) , the author speaks of the insect as " Drunk ev'ry night with a delicious tear , Dropped thee from heaven . " - The similarity , in each case , I believe to have been en- tirely ...
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... Singing Amyntor's Grove The Scrutinie . 81 82 84 89 Princesse Loysa Drawing A Forsaken Lady to her False Servant The Grassehopper . To My Noble Friend , Mr. 90 92 Charles Cotton [ the elder ] 94 An Elegie on the Death of Mrs. Cassandra ...
... Singing Amyntor's Grove The Scrutinie . 81 82 84 89 Princesse Loysa Drawing A Forsaken Lady to her False Servant The Grassehopper . To My Noble Friend , Mr. 90 92 Charles Cotton [ the elder ] 94 An Elegie on the Death of Mrs. Cassandra ...
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... sing , I may In stiver - stile write love as well as they . I write so well that I no criticks feare ; For who'le read mine , when as thy booke's so neer , Vnlesse thy selfe ? then you shall secure mine From those , and Ile engage my ...
... sing , I may In stiver - stile write love as well as they . I write so well that I no criticks feare ; For who'le read mine , when as thy booke's so neer , Vnlesse thy selfe ? then you shall secure mine From those , and Ile engage my ...
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... sing , When peace is hurried hence on rages wing , 2 When the fresh bayes are from the Temple torne , And every art and science made a scorne ; Then to raise up , by musicke of thy art , Our drooping spirits and our grieved hearts ...
... sing , When peace is hurried hence on rages wing , 2 When the fresh bayes are from the Temple torne , And every art and science made a scorne ; Then to raise up , by musicke of thy art , Our drooping spirits and our grieved hearts ...
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... sing great things as he , That can act o're all lights of poetry . Thus had Achilles his owne gests design'd , He had his genius Homer far outshin'd . Jo . HALL . Original has aspire . 2 The precocious author of Hora Vaciva , 1646 , and ...
... sing great things as he , That can act o're all lights of poetry . Thus had Achilles his owne gests design'd , He had his genius Homer far outshin'd . Jo . HALL . Original has aspire . 2 The precocious author of Hora Vaciva , 1646 , and ...
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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.