Specimens of the British Poets ...W. Suttaby, 1809 - English poetry |
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... Light 137 Life and Fame 140 Odes . - Of Solitude 141 Upon Liberty 143 Acme and Septimius 147 The Chronicle 149 The Soul 151 The Wish 152 The Inconstant Anacreontics . - Love Drinking Beauty 153 ib . 154 ib . The Duel 155 Age 156 The ...
... Light 137 Life and Fame 140 Odes . - Of Solitude 141 Upon Liberty 143 Acme and Septimius 147 The Chronicle 149 The Soul 151 The Wish 152 The Inconstant Anacreontics . - Love Drinking Beauty 153 ib . 154 ib . The Duel 155 Age 156 The ...
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... That spent your boasts and brags in vain ; My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours , I dare well saine , Than doth the sun the candle light , Or brightest day the darkest night . B Vol . I. And thereto hath a truth as just , As had.
... That spent your boasts and brags in vain ; My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours , I dare well saine , Than doth the sun the candle light , Or brightest day the darkest night . B Vol . I. And thereto hath a truth as just , As had.
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... light , She sends sweet notes from out her breast : So sing I now , because I think How joys approach when sorrows shrink . And as fair Philomene again Can watch and sing when others sleep , And taketh pleasure in her pain , To wray the ...
... light , She sends sweet notes from out her breast : So sing I now , because I think How joys approach when sorrows shrink . And as fair Philomene again Can watch and sing when others sleep , And taketh pleasure in her pain , To wray the ...
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... light . " Why , alas ! and are you he ? Are not yet these fancies changed ? ” Dear , when you find change in me , Though from me you be estranged , Let my change to ruin be . " What if you new beauties see ? Will not they stir new ...
... light . " Why , alas ! and are you he ? Are not yet these fancies changed ? ” Dear , when you find change in me , Though from me you be estranged , Let my change to ruin be . " What if you new beauties see ? Will not they stir new ...
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... light ; To her sweet sense , sweet sleep ! some ease impart , Her sense too weak to bear her spirit's might . And while , O Sleep ! thou closest up her sight- Her sight , where Love did forge his fairest dart , O harbour all her parts ...
... light ; To her sweet sense , sweet sleep ! some ease impart , Her sense too weak to bear her spirit's might . And while , O Sleep ! thou closest up her sight- Her sight , where Love did forge his fairest dart , O harbour all her parts ...
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Arachne azure rays beauteous beauty birds breast breath bright Castara charms Corydon crown'd Cupid dear death delight dight doth e'er earth eccho ring eyes face fair fame fancy fate fear flame flowers gentle GEORGE GASCOIGNE give goddess golden goodly grace grief ground hand happy hast hath head hear heart heaven heavenly Hecat's honour Hymen Jove king kiss light live lov'd love's lovely band lover Lubberkin lute lyre maid mighty mind Muse ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er Pallas passion pity pleasures poets praise pride rage rose shade shepherd shine sighs sight sing sleep smile soft SONG SONNETS sorrow soul spide sung swain sweet tears Tell Tereu thee thine things thou art thou dost thought Twas unto vermil virtue wanton ween Whilst wind wings woods youth
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Page 216 - Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Page 183 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 38 - There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page 18 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...
Page 40 - Say to the court, it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good. If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction.
Page 210 - TwAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 190 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish...
Page 216 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 182 - Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; But first, and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation...
Page 223 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.