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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... plays the game of love differently so much as that he plays it so passionately and intel- lectually , and always honestly . His lyrics give the impression of being freshly minted though the whole complex history of the English lyric ...
... plays the game of love differently so much as that he plays it so passionately and intel- lectually , and always honestly . His lyrics give the impression of being freshly minted though the whole complex history of the English lyric ...
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... plays with epigram and emblem before it makes its final devotion , as in a litany , supplicating St. Teresa to be ... playing upon the theme of the sacred mysteries of Christianity . For all that they stem from the ecclesi- astical end ...
... plays with epigram and emblem before it makes its final devotion , as in a litany , supplicating St. Teresa to be ... playing upon the theme of the sacred mysteries of Christianity . For all that they stem from the ecclesi- astical end ...
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... play , But gravely cast themselves away . Dear , harmless age ! the short , swift span , Where weeping virtue parts with man ; Where love without lust dwells , and bends What way we please , without self - ends . An age of mysteries ...
... play , But gravely cast themselves away . Dear , harmless age ! the short , swift span , Where weeping virtue parts with man ; Where love without lust dwells , and bends What way we please , without self - ends . An age of mysteries ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
George Herbert cont | 4 |
The goodmorrow | 26 |
Copyright | |
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