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almoſt alſo appear beams beauty becauſe Beſides beſt cauſe ceaſe comb courſe death defires DITTY divine Donne doſt doth Elegy elſe Engliſh EPITAPH Ev'n eyes fair fatires fince firſt foul FRANCIS VERE give glory grace greatneſs hair hath heart Heaven Inque intereſting Introduction itſelf Joshua Sylvester Kiſs laſt leaſt leſs light live Lord Herbert loſe lyric meaſures mind Miſtreſs moſt muſic muſt obfcure obſerve occaſion paſſed paſt pauſe Perſon Platonic Love pleaſe pleaſure poems poet poetry praiſes preſent Prince queſtion reaſon reſt riſe ſame Satyra Secunda ſay ſcarcely ſcorn ſecond ſee ſeem ſelf ſenſe ſentiment ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhine ſhort ſhould ſhow ſince ſome SONNET Soul ſpare ſpeaking ſpirit ſport ſtage ſtand ſtanza ſtate State-Progress of Ill ſtay ſtill ſtrange ſtrike ſtyle ſuch ſweet taſte tell thee themſelves theſe thoſe thou thought true Picture univerſal Unleſs unto uſe verſes whoſe worſe
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Page 93 - Long their fixt eyes to Heaven bent, Unchanged, they did never move, As if so great and pure a love No Glass but it could represent.
Page 88 - Truth and propriety, such as do tell So little other things, they hardly spell Their proper meaning, and therefore unfit To blazon forth thy merits, or thy wit.
Page 82 - Mixt equally, produce nor heat nor cold, Either to burn the young or freeze the old ; But to one even temper being made Upon a...
Page 59 - As parts of thee, do work as mysteries, Of that thy hidden power; when thou dost reign The characters of fate shine in the Skies, And tell us what the Heavens do ordain, But when Earth's common light shines to our eyes, Thou so retir'st thy self, that thy disdain All revelation unto Man denies.
Page 97 - So when from hence we shall be gone, And be no more, nor you, nor I, As one another's mystery, Each shall be both, yet both but one. This said, in her up-lifted face, Her eyes, which did that beauty crown, Were like two Starrs, that having fain down, Look up again to find their place...
Page 49 - Must I then see, alas ! eternal night Sitting upon those fairest eyes, And closing all those beams, which once did rise So radiant and bright, That light and heat in them to us did prove Knowledge and love? Oh, if you did delight no more to stay Upon this low and earthly stage, But rather chose an endless heritage, Tell us at least, we pray, Where all the beauties that those ashes owed Are now bestowed?
Page 96 - These eyes again, then, eyes shall see, And hands again these hands enfold, "° And all chaste pleasures can be told Shall with us everlasting be. For if no use of sense remain When bodies once this life forsake, Or they could no delight partake, Why should they ever rise again?
Page 27 - Fixed in the center of my heart, As in his place, And lodged so, how can it change, Or you grow strange? Those are earth's properties, and base. *° Each where, as the bodies divine, Heav'n's lights and you to me will shine.
Page 81 - The monument which thou beholdest here, Presents Edward, Lord Herbert, to thy sight; A man, who was so free from either hope or fear, To have or lose this ordinary light, That when to elements his body turned were, He knew that as those elements would fight, So his immortal soul should find above With his Creator, peace, joy, truth,
Page 2 - And fum what ere that life infpir'd endures Paft a beginning, and through you we bide The doom of Fate, whofe unrecall'd Decree You date, bring, execute ; making what's new 111, and good old, for as we die in you, You die in Time, Time in Eternity.