PoemsEffingham Wilson, 1842 - 338 páginas |
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Página 226 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 221 - Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye ; Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring ! full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
Página 20 - Jews' work, and most excellent; Full strong was every plate; And over that his coat armoure, As white as is the lily flower, In which he would debate. 26. His shield was all of gold so red, And thereon was a wild boar's head, A carbuncle beside; And then he swore on ale and bread, How that the giant should be dead, Whatever should betide!
Página 28 - FLOWER AND THE LEAF. AN EARTHLY PARADISE. When that Phoebus his chair of gold so high Had whirled up the starry sky aloft, And in the Bull...
Página 28 - Leaf ; afterward this gentlewoman learneth by one of these ladies the meaning hereof, which is this; they which honour the Flower, a thing fading with every blast, are such as look after beauty and worldly pleasure, but they that honour the Leaf, which abideth with the root notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects.
Página 21 - ware you, sirs, and let this man have space. He in the waist is shaped as well as I ; This were a puppet in an arm to embrace For any woman, small and fair of face. He seemeth elfish by his countenance, For unto no wight doth he dalliance.
Página 20 - ... nor dangers, nor disgrace : So may my soul have bliss, as, when I spy The scarlet red about thy partridge eye, While thou art constant to thy own true knight, While thou art mine, and I am thy delight, All sorrows at thy presence take their flight. For true it is, as in principio, Mulier est hominis confusio. Madam, the meaning of this Latin is, That woman is to man his sovereign bliss.
Página 31 - And so I followed on till me it brought To a right pleasant Bower with cunning wrought. 8. Soft seats were all around with green turfs new, Just freshly turfed ; and, lo ! the pleasant grass So small, so thick, so short, so fresh of hue, That most like to green wool, I wot, it was ; And eke the hedge that round about it grew Was full of flowers.
Página 30 - About the springing of the gladsome day, And on I put my gear and mine array, And to a pleasant grove I 'gan to pass Long ere the...
Página 7 - Ne apoplexy shente not her head. No wine ne drank she, neither white ne red; Her board was served most with white and black — Milk and brown bread, in which she found no lack — Seynd bacon, and sometime an egg or tway; 25 For she was, as it were, a manner dey.