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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... poore fish beset , With strangling snare , or windowie net : Let coarse bold hands , from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out - wrest , Or curious traitors , sleavesilke flies Bewitch poore fishes wandring eyes . For thee , thou ...
... poore fish beset , With strangling snare , or windowie net : Let coarse bold hands , from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out - wrest , Or curious traitors , sleavesilke flies Bewitch poore fishes wandring eyes . For thee , thou ...
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... poore thou wast , how obnoxious ; Whom a small lumpe of flesh could poyson thus . This curded milke , this poore unlittered whelpe My body , could , beyond escape or helpe , Infect thee with Originall sinne , and thou Couldst neither ...
... poore thou wast , how obnoxious ; Whom a small lumpe of flesh could poyson thus . This curded milke , this poore unlittered whelpe My body , could , beyond escape or helpe , Infect thee with Originall sinne , and thou Couldst neither ...
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... poore Shepheards eye . That the unmeasur'd God so low should sinke , As Pris'ner in a few poore Rags to lye . That from his Mothers Brest hee milke should drinke , Who feeds with Nectar Heav'ns faire family . 140 150 160 170 That a vile ...
... poore Shepheards eye . That the unmeasur'd God so low should sinke , As Pris'ner in a few poore Rags to lye . That from his Mothers Brest hee milke should drinke , Who feeds with Nectar Heav'ns faire family . 140 150 160 170 That a vile ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
George Herbert cont | 4 |
The goodmorrow | 26 |
Copyright | |
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