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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Page 83
... Sight is the noblest sense of any one , Yet sight hath only colour to feed on , And colour is decai'd : summers robe growes Duskie , and like an oft dyed garment showes . Our blushing red , which us'd in cheekes to spred , Is inward ...
... Sight is the noblest sense of any one , Yet sight hath only colour to feed on , And colour is decai'd : summers robe growes Duskie , and like an oft dyed garment showes . Our blushing red , which us'd in cheekes to spred , Is inward ...
Page 238
... sight , And poore fowles intercepted in their flight . 48 Heav'n saw her rise , and saw Hell in the sight . The field's faire Eyes saw her , and saw no more , But shut their flowry lids for ever . Night , And Winter strow her way ; yet ...
... sight , And poore fowles intercepted in their flight . 48 Heav'n saw her rise , and saw Hell in the sight . The field's faire Eyes saw her , and saw no more , But shut their flowry lids for ever . Night , And Winter strow her way ; yet ...
Page 258
... Sight Hath mett love's Noon in Nature's night ; Come lift we up our loftyer Song And wake the SUN that lyes too long . To all our world of well - stoln joy He slept ; and dream't of no such thing . While we found out Heavn's fairer ey ...
... Sight Hath mett love's Noon in Nature's night ; Come lift we up our loftyer Song And wake the SUN that lyes too long . To all our world of well - stoln joy He slept ; and dream't of no such thing . While we found out Heavn's fairer ey ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
George Herbert cont | 4 |
The goodmorrow | 26 |
Copyright | |
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