The Lark Now Leaves His Wat❜ry Nest 1649. When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, The enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take 24 32 Richard Lovelace. "THE LARK NOW LEAVES HIS WAT'RY NEST" THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And to implore your light he sings- The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn! 12 Sir William Davenant. 1672. 1645. ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, 4 A narrow compass! and yet there 8 12 Edmund Waller. HEAR, YE LADIES From Valentinian HEAR, ye ladies that despise What the mighty Love has done; Fear examples and be wise: Fair Callisto was a nun; Disdain Returned Leda, sailing on the stream Danaë, in a brazen tower, Where no love was, loved a shower. Hear, ye ladies that are coy, The chaste Moon he makes to woo; Vesta, kindling holy fires, Circled round about with spies, Never dreaming loose desires, Doting at the altar dies; 1647. Ilion, in a short hour, higher 10 20 John Fletcher. DISDAIN RETURNED He that loves a rosy cheek, But a smooth and steadfast mind, 6 1632. Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires:- Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes. . . 12 Thomas Carew. 1640. SONG Ask me no more where Jove bestows, Ask me no more whither do stray Ask me no more whither doth haste Ask me no more where those stars light Ask me no more if east or west The Phoenix builds her spicy nest; For unto you at last she flies, Thomas Carew. 8 12 16 20 TO HIS INCONSTANT MISTRESS WHEN thou, poor Excommunicate From all the joys of Love, shalt see Which my strong faith shall purchase me, A fairer hand than thine shall cure That heart which thy false oaths did wound; And to my soul a soul more pure Than thine shall by Love's hand be bound, Then shalt thou weep, entreat, complain 1640. 5 ΤΟ 15 Thomas Carew. ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of the night, Which poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, What are you, when the Moon shall rise? 5 |