Lucasta: The Poems of Richard LovelaceJ.R. Smith, 1864 - 293 pages |
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... wind ( said she ) dare with thee henceforth play But mine own breath to coole the tyrants heat . VII . My lively shade thou ever shalt retaine In thy inclosed feather - framed glasse , And but unto our selves to all remaine Invisible ...
... wind ( said she ) dare with thee henceforth play But mine own breath to coole the tyrants heat . VII . My lively shade thou ever shalt retaine In thy inclosed feather - framed glasse , And but unto our selves to all remaine Invisible ...
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... winds that blow To silver shot descending snow , Lucasta sigh't ; 2 when she did close The world in frosty chaines ! And then a frowne to rubies frose The blood boyl❜d in our veines : Yet cooled not the heat her sphere Of beauties ...
... winds that blow To silver shot descending snow , Lucasta sigh't ; 2 when she did close The world in frosty chaines ! And then a frowne to rubies frose The blood boyl❜d in our veines : Yet cooled not the heat her sphere Of beauties ...
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... , like your streames , You shall rowle back with kinder force , Amyn . 1 Endymion Porter ? 2 Lovelace himself . Alex . And call the helping winds to vent your 56 POEMS . Calling Lucasta from her Retirement Amarantha, a Pastoral.
... , like your streames , You shall rowle back with kinder force , Amyn . 1 Endymion Porter ? 2 Lovelace himself . Alex . And call the helping winds to vent your 56 POEMS . Calling Lucasta from her Retirement Amarantha, a Pastoral.
Page 57
... winds to vent your thought . Amyntor ! Chloris ! where Or in what sphere Say , may that glorious fair be sought ? Amyn . She's now the center of these armes e're blest , Whence may she never move , Till Time and Love Haste to their ...
... winds to vent your thought . Amyntor ! Chloris ! where Or in what sphere Say , may that glorious fair be sought ? Amyn . She's now the center of these armes e're blest , Whence may she never move , Till Time and Love Haste to their ...
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... winds in chains colder for3 sorrow blow . VII . Shrill trumpets doe only sound to eate , Artillery hath loaden ev'ry dish with meate , And drums at ev'ry health alarmes beate . VIII . All things Lucasta , but Lucasta , call , Trees ...
... winds in chains colder for3 sorrow blow . VII . Shrill trumpets doe only sound to eate , Artillery hath loaden ev'ry dish with meate , And drums at ev'ry health alarmes beate . VIII . All things Lucasta , but Lucasta , call , Trees ...
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Amarantha Amyntor arms AUSONIUS Ayres and Dialogues beauty behold blest blisse brave breast breath bright brother Cæsar Catullus Charles Cotton chast Chloris Cotgrave crowne dear death divine doth e're earth edition Edward Filmer ELEGIE ENGLISHED ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fire flame flye Francis Lovelace glorious glory Gloucester Hall Gray's Inn grief hair hand hast hath heart heav'n HENRY LAWES Hierocles honour imbrace John Gamble Kent Kentish Petition King kisse lady light lines live Lord lov'd Lovelace's Lucasta neer night noble o're Original reads Petition Poems poet poet's pow'r printed RICHARD LOVELACE sacred shine sing smile soft SONG soul stars Sunne sweet tears thee thine thou dost thought unto verses vertue virgin weep Whilst WILLIAM LAWES William Lovelace winde wings wound write you'l
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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.