Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language,Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - English poetry |
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... flames , which quench'd were with thy breath , Can kindle now no more but in thy grave ! * SONG . [ From " Aurora . " ] OH would to God a way were found That by some secret sympathy unknown My fair my fancy's depth might sound , And ...
... flames , which quench'd were with thy breath , Can kindle now no more but in thy grave ! * SONG . [ From " Aurora . " ] OH would to God a way were found That by some secret sympathy unknown My fair my fancy's depth might sound , And ...
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... flames , Who ne'er kept word in promis'd joy To lover , nor to loving dames . So all alike will constant prove , Both Fortune , running streams , and Love . EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY . This noble author is WM . HERBERT , EARL OF ...
... flames , Who ne'er kept word in promis'd joy To lover , nor to loving dames . So all alike will constant prove , Both Fortune , running streams , and Love . EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY . This noble author is WM . HERBERT , EARL OF ...
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... flame in likest hair ; Oft in a soft smooth skin doth close retire ; Oft in a smile ; oft in a silent tear : And if all fail , yet Virtue's self he'll hire . Himself's a dart , when nothing else can move : Who then the captive soul can ...
... flame in likest hair ; Oft in a soft smooth skin doth close retire ; Oft in a smile ; oft in a silent tear : And if all fail , yet Virtue's self he'll hire . Himself's a dart , when nothing else can move : Who then the captive soul can ...
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... flame I the bud and blossom am . Only bend thy knee to me , Thy wooing shall thy winning be ! See , see the flowers that below Now as fresh as morning blow , And of all the virgin rose , That as bright Aurora shows , How they all ...
... flame I the bud and blossom am . Only bend thy knee to me , Thy wooing shall thy winning be ! See , see the flowers that below Now as fresh as morning blow , And of all the virgin rose , That as bright Aurora shows , How they all ...
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... which possest , The wheels are fix'd , the motions rest , The flames in ashes lie opprest . This meteor , striving high to rise , ( The fuel spent ) falls down and dies . * Why then should lovers ( most will say } Expect [ 59 ]
... which possest , The wheels are fix'd , the motions rest , The flames in ashes lie opprest . This meteor , striving high to rise , ( The fuel spent ) falls down and dies . * Why then should lovers ( most will say } Expect [ 59 ]
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Page 84 - I how great she be? Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair! If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve! If she slight me, when I woo, I can scorn, and let her go! For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be?
Page 195 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done.
Page 251 - Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison, (Who sees them is undone), For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Catherine pear The side that's next the sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly) ; But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face ; I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
Page 194 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, — How...
Page 277 - Prison 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 390 - scape, Rivals and Falsehood soon appear In a more dreadful shape. By such degrees to joy they come, And are so long withstood, So slowly they receive the sum, It hardly does them good. 'Tis cruel to prolong a pain; And to defer a joy, Believe me, gentle Celemene, Offends the winged boy.
Page 222 - Now the bright Morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.
Page 73 - And Phoebus in his chair Ensaffroning sea and air Makes vanish every star: Night like a drunkard reels Beyond the hills to shun his flaming wheels: The fields...
Page 290 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns and smiles and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries, (Numberless, nameless mysteries...
Page 275 - 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.