English Poetry of the Seventeenth CenturyRoberta Florence Brinkley |
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Page 273
... Flower How fresh , O Lord , how sweet and clean Are Thy returns ! Even as the flowers in spring , To which , besides their own demean , The late - past frosts tributes of pleasure bring . Grief melts away Like snow in May , As if there ...
... Flower How fresh , O Lord , how sweet and clean Are Thy returns ! Even as the flowers in spring , To which , besides their own demean , The late - past frosts tributes of pleasure bring . Grief melts away Like snow in May , As if there ...
Page 512
... Flowers See with what simplicity This nymph begins her golden days ! In the green grass she loves to lie , And there with her fair aspect tames The wilder flowers , and gives them names ; But only with the roses plays , And them does ...
... Flowers See with what simplicity This nymph begins her golden days ! In the green grass she loves to lie , And there with her fair aspect tames The wilder flowers , and gives them names ; But only with the roses plays , And them does ...
Page 533
... flowers without clothes live , Yet Solomon was never dressed so fine.3 Man hath still either toys or care ; He hath ... Flower ] I walked the other day , to spend my hour , Into a field , Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield A ...
... flowers without clothes live , Yet Solomon was never dressed so fine.3 Man hath still either toys or care ; He hath ... Flower ] I walked the other day , to spend my hour , Into a field , Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield A ...
Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND | 1 |
JOHN DONNE | 21 |
The Legacy | 30 |
Copyright | |
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