Seventeenth-century English Poetry, Volume 1Miriam Kosh Starkman Volume 1 includes writings by John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, and Richard Crashaw. |
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... move into the grand style , and for all their fascination they remain curiously unresolved as poems , no matter how accom- plished they may be as meditations . Among his secular poems , however , it is for the Songs and Sonets that ...
... move into the grand style , and for all their fascination they remain curiously unresolved as poems , no matter how accom- plished they may be as meditations . Among his secular poems , however , it is for the Songs and Sonets that ...
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... move , T'were prophanation of our joyes To tell the layetie our love . Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares , Men reckon what it did and meant , But trepidation of the spheares , Though greater farre , is innocent . No Dull ...
... move , T'were prophanation of our joyes To tell the layetie our love . Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares , Men reckon what it did and meant , But trepidation of the spheares , Though greater farre , is innocent . No Dull ...
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... move Now beneath , and now above , And in your vast progressions overlook The darkest night , and closest nook ! Some nights I see you in the gladsome East , Some others neer the West , And when I cannot see , yet do you shine And beat ...
... move Now beneath , and now above , And in your vast progressions overlook The darkest night , and closest nook ! Some nights I see you in the gladsome East , Some others neer the West , And when I cannot see , yet do you shine And beat ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
George Herbert cont | 4 |
The goodmorrow | 26 |
Copyright | |
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