Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to ButlerSir Herbert John Clifford Grierson |
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Abraham Cowley Andrew Marvell Angels Aurelian Townshend beauty blest breast breath brest bright conceits Crashaw crown dayes dear death delight divine Donne's dost doth drest Dryden e're earth elegies eyes fair Faith Fate fear fire flame flowers George Herbert Giles Fletcher give glory grace grave grief haire happy hast hate mee hath heart Heaven Henry Vaughan Hymn John Donne King light live Lord lov'd Love's Lovers metaphysical metaphysical poets Milton mind Mistresse never night numbers passionate pleasure poems poetic poetry poets religious Richard Crashaw Richard Lovelace shade shee shine sigh sight sinn Sir John Suckling Song Sonnet sorrow soul spheare spirit starres Sunne sweet taste teares tell thee thine things Thomas Carew Thou art thou shalt thoughts thy face true unto verse vertue weep William Davenant William Habington wilt wings ΙΟ
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Page 112 - I no bayes to crown it? No flowers, no garlands gay? all blasted? All wasted? Not so, my heart: but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit, and not. Forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Page 5 - To meet thee in that hollow vale. And think not much of my delay; I am already on the way, And follow thee with all the speed Desire can make, or sorrows breed. Each minute is a short degree And every hour a step towards thee. At night when I betake to rest, Next morn I rise nearer my west Of life, almost by eight hours sail Than when sleep breathed his drowsy gale.
Page xxxi - 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 season'd...
Page xxxvii - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page xxxiv - Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss. Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scaped this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquered woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purposed overthrow.
Page 10 - In busy companies of men. Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow; Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name; Little, alas, they know or heed, How far these beauties hers exceed!
Page 1 - Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
Page xx - He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.
Page 10 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.