Some Longer Elizabethan Poems, Volume 10Thomas Seccombe |
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A. H. BULLEN ALCILIA ANTINOUS ARTESIA ASTROPHEL beasts Beauty behold bliss Body Body's creature cruell CYCLOPS DAIPHANTUS dance DAPHNIS dead death delight divine doeth dost doth earth euery eyes fair fame fear flowers Ganymede giue glory grace grief happy hart hath haue hear heart heaven heavenly honour HYMN King kiss Lady leaue light lips liue live loue louely Love Love's Lycon MENALCAS MICHAEL DRAYTON mind mortal mourn Muse Nature neuer never night nought Nymph pain Passions Pecunia Pitty pleasure poem praise Prince Queen quoth Reason scorn Sense shee Shepheard shew shine sighs sight siluer sing Sir PHILIP SIDNEY Sir Walter Ralegh Sith SONNET sorrow Soul spring staind stars Sunne sweet tears thee THEOCRITUS thine things thou art thought tongue true unto URANIA VENUS verses Vertue Virtue VITULLIA vnto vpon weepe wherein youth
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Page 406 - Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.
Page 407 - Have ever to the sun, By Fame been raised. "And for myself (quoth he) This my full rest shall be, England ne'er mourn for me, Nor more esteem me: Victor I will remain, Or on this earth lie slain, Never shall she sustain Loss to redeem me.
Page 286 - When he descended down the mount, His personage seemed most divine : A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely cheerful eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
Page 384 - No cause deferred, no vain-spent journey; For there Christ is the King's Attorney, Who pleads for all without degrees, And He hath angels, but no fees. And when the grand twelve-million jury Of our sins, with direful fury, 'Gainst our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads His death, and then we live. Be Thou my speaker, taintless pleader, Unblotted lawyer, true proceeder! Thou giv'st salvation even for alms; Not with a bribed lawyer's palms.
Page 405 - That long there doth not live. When as the luscious smell Of that delicious land, Above the seas that flows, The clear wind throws, Your hearts to swell Approaching the dear strand.
Page 404 - And cheerfully at sea, Success you still entice To get the pearl and gold And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise.
Page 286 - Within these woods of Arcady He chief delight and pleasure took ; And on the mountain Partheny, Upon the crystal liquid brook, The Muses met him every day. That taught him sing, to write, and say...
Page xv - Thus, hoping you will beare with my rude conceit of Cynthia (if for no other cause, yet, for that it is the First Imitation of the verse of that excellent Poet, Maister Spencer, in his Fayrie Queene), I leaue you to the reading of that, which I so much desire may breed your delight.
Page 407 - Poitiers and Cressy tell, When most their pride did swell, Under our swords they fell; No less our skill is Than when our grandsire great, Claiming the regal seat, By many a warlike feat Lopped the French lilies.
Page 409 - England stood, With his brave brother, Clarence, in steel so bright, Though but a maiden knight, Yet in that furious fight Scarce such another. Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made, Still as they ran up ; Suffolk his axe did ply, Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily, Ferrers and Fanhope. Upon Saint Crispin's day...