Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volumen2J. Sharpe, 1810 |
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... thine eye Upon the weakness of thine infancy ; See how thy lips hang on thy mother's breast Bawling for help , more helpless than a beast . Liv'st thou to childhood ? then behold what toys Do mock the sense , how shallow are thy joys ...
... thine eye Upon the weakness of thine infancy ; See how thy lips hang on thy mother's breast Bawling for help , more helpless than a beast . Liv'st thou to childhood ? then behold what toys Do mock the sense , how shallow are thy joys ...
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... thine own base desire , Which melts and hardens at the selfsame fire . Art thou decrepit ? then thy very breath Is grievous to thee , and each grief's a death . Look where thou list , thy life is but a span , Thou art but dust , and ...
... thine own base desire , Which melts and hardens at the selfsame fire . Art thou decrepit ? then thy very breath Is grievous to thee , and each grief's a death . Look where thou list , thy life is but a span , Thou art but dust , and ...
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... thine own hard case ; For thou perhaps at thy return May'st find thy darling in an urn * T. Carew's Poems , p . 90 , Edit . 1640 . * I have always considered this Epitaph as Carew's masterpiece . The subject of it may possibly be the ...
... thine own hard case ; For thou perhaps at thy return May'st find thy darling in an urn * T. Carew's Poems , p . 90 , Edit . 1640 . * I have always considered this Epitaph as Carew's masterpiece . The subject of it may possibly be the ...
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... thine eye more now , Than thine did his on earth . Let not a shepherd on our hapless plains Tune notes of glee , as used were of yore : For Philarete is dead , let mirthful strains With Philarete cease for evermore ! And if a fellow ...
... thine eye more now , Than thine did his on earth . Let not a shepherd on our hapless plains Tune notes of glee , as used were of yore : For Philarete is dead , let mirthful strains With Philarete cease for evermore ! And if a fellow ...
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... thine , ( My little world ! ) that fit of fire Once off , our bodies shall aspire To our soul's bliss : then we shall rise , And view ourselves with clearer eyes In that calm region , where no night Can hide us from each others sight ...
... thine , ( My little world ! ) that fit of fire Once off , our bodies shall aspire To our soul's bliss : then we shall rise , And view ourselves with clearer eyes In that calm region , where no night Can hide us from each others sight ...
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Æneid Alcon battle of Agincourt beauty bird blood breast breath BROOMHOLM Castara Comus dead dear death didst dost doth Drayton DRUMMOND dust earth Eclogue Edit ELEGY epitaph Essay on Criticism ev'ry face fair fame fate fear Fletcher flowers GILES FLETCHER glory Gondibert grace grave grief hadst hand hast hath hear hearse heart heaven honour hope hour king King's Poems light lines live Livy look Lord Methinks Milton mind Muse ne'er never night numbers o'er Philomel Picts pleasure poetry poets Poly-Olbion Pope praise Quarles queen racter ROBERT SOUTHWELL saints Scythian seem'd shine sigh silent silver planet sing sleep smile song sorrow soul Spenser spirit star sweet tears thee thine things thou art thought thyself tomb unto verse Virbius Virtue's virtues voice whilst wind wings winter's youth
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Página 114 - Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Página 65 - Thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake: Till age, or grief, or sickness must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves, and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there: I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale.
Página 137 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 114 - Love's latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes — Now, if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover!
Página 22 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Página 149 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But more...
Página 75 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 33 - That flesh is but the glass t which holds the dust That measures all our time, which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
Página 106 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Página 89 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.