The Book of Gems: Chaucer to PriorSamuel Carter Hall Saunders and Otley, 1836 - English poetry |
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... fear t ' exceed my dutie . For , knowing that I sue to serve A sainte of such perfection , As all desire , but none deserve A place in her affection , I rather choose to want reliefe Than venture the revealing : Where glory recommends ...
... fear t ' exceed my dutie . For , knowing that I sue to serve A sainte of such perfection , As all desire , but none deserve A place in her affection , I rather choose to want reliefe Than venture the revealing : Where glory recommends ...
Page 81
... fear to know because that binds them too . Shew these to arts ; those riddles of the sin Which error first creates , and then inherits ; This light consumes those mists they flourish in , At once deprives their glory and their merit ...
... fear to know because that binds them too . Shew these to arts ; those riddles of the sin Which error first creates , and then inherits ; This light consumes those mists they flourish in , At once deprives their glory and their merit ...
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... fear to finde ; To finde , but not enjoy : In many frownes some gliding smiles Shee yeelds to more annoy . Shee wooes thee to come neere her fire , Yet doth she draw it from thee ; Farre off she makes thy heart to fry , And yet to ...
... fear to finde ; To finde , but not enjoy : In many frownes some gliding smiles Shee yeelds to more annoy . Shee wooes thee to come neere her fire , Yet doth she draw it from thee ; Farre off she makes thy heart to fry , And yet to ...
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... fear'd : fair tempted : high still envy'd more : I have wish'd all ; but now I wish for neither ; Great , high ... fears : Then here I'll sit , and sigh my hot love's folly , And learn t ' affect an holy melancholy ; And if Contentment ...
... fear'd : fair tempted : high still envy'd more : I have wish'd all ; but now I wish for neither ; Great , high ... fears : Then here I'll sit , and sigh my hot love's folly , And learn t ' affect an holy melancholy ; And if Contentment ...
Page 117
... . This man is freed from servile bands , Of hope to rise , or fear to fall : Lord of himself , though not of lands ; And having nothing , yet hath all . SIR JOHN DAVIES was born at Chisgrove , Wiltshire , WOTTON . 117.
... . This man is freed from servile bands , Of hope to rise , or fear to fall : Lord of himself , though not of lands ; And having nothing , yet hath all . SIR JOHN DAVIES was born at Chisgrove , Wiltshire , WOTTON . 117.
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Page 168 - 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 hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 174 - Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; 30 Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 82 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 174 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 213 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye. The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 220 - Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Page 217 - And sends the fowls to us in care, On daily visits through the air ; He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night...
Page 160 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Page 208 - THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair; The sea itself (which one would think Should have but little need of drink) Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. The busy Sun (and one would guess...
Page 177 - Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus