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... nymph , worshipped an image of my own making , and dedicated this to the lady of the brain , not of the heart , of Your Ladyship's most humble servant , EDM . WALLER . PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF MR . WALLER'S POEMS , AFTER THE ...
... nymph , worshipped an image of my own making , and dedicated this to the lady of the brain , not of the heart , of Your Ladyship's most humble servant , EDM . WALLER . PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF MR . WALLER'S POEMS , AFTER THE ...
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... nymph than shet That sprung out of his present foe , the sea . * A compliment to the charms of the Princess at the expense of historical truth . When Prince Charles and Buckingham left England on their expedition to Madrid for the ...
... nymph than shet That sprung out of his present foe , the sea . * A compliment to the charms of the Princess at the expense of historical truth . When Prince Charles and Buckingham left England on their expedition to Madrid for the ...
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... nymphs of the Gallic court , All highly born , obsequious to her sport ; They roses seem , which in their early pride But half reveal , and half their beauties hide ; She the glad morning , which her beams does throw Upon their smiling ...
... nymphs of the Gallic court , All highly born , obsequious to her sport ; They roses seem , which in their early pride But half reveal , and half their beauties hide ; She the glad morning , which her beams does throw Upon their smiling ...
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... nymphs , who , singing what we penned , Our passions to themselves commend ; * Henry Lawes , the son of a vicar - choral at Salisbury , was born about 1600. He was a disciple of Coperario , and was appointed a gentleman of the Chapel ...
... nymphs , who , singing what we penned , Our passions to themselves commend ; * Henry Lawes , the son of a vicar - choral at Salisbury , was born about 1600. He was a disciple of Coperario , and was appointed a gentleman of the Chapel ...
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... nymph as bright , By thee disclosed , with like increase of light . Why was her joy in Belgia confined ? Or why did you so much regard the wind ? Scarce could the ocean , though enraged , have tossed Thy sovereign bark , but where the ...
... nymph as bright , By thee disclosed , with like increase of light . Why was her joy in Belgia confined ? Or why did you so much regard the wind ? Scarce could the ocean , though enraged , have tossed Thy sovereign bark , but where the ...
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Page 222 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, —...
Page 123 - ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done.
Page 127 - TT is not that I love you less, •*- Than when before your feet I lay; But to prevent the sad increase Of hopeless love, I keep away. In vain, alas ! for everything Which I have known belong to you, Your form does to my fancy bring, And makes my old wounds bleed anew.
Page 46 - ... floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant, omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta, aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.
Page 175 - From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, where they rise, they set.
Page 221 - Oh ! suppress that magic sound, Which destroys without a wound. Peace Chloris, peace, or singing die, That together you and I To Heaven may go : For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.
Page 101 - Oh ! how I long my careless limbs to lay Under the plantain's shade, and all the day With amorous airs my fancy entertain, Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein! No passion there in my free breast should move, None but the sweet and best of passions, love.
Page 60 - Where'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear. So Jove from Ida did both hosts survey, And when he pleased to thunder part the fray. Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped, The...
Page 132 - Tis art and knowledge which draw forth The hidden seeds of native worth : They blow those sparks, and make them rise Into such flames as touch the skies.
Page 194 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.