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... soft Catullus , sharp - fang'd Martial , And tow'ring Lucan , Horace , Juvenal , And snakie Persius.1 There are few better specimens of classical translation in our language , than Herrick's Dialogue betwixt Horace and Lydia , and his ...
... soft Catullus , sharp - fang'd Martial , And tow'ring Lucan , Horace , Juvenal , And snakie Persius.1 There are few better specimens of classical translation in our language , than Herrick's Dialogue betwixt Horace and Lydia , and his ...
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... soft airs and sounds , and bright skies , and woodland solitudes , and moonlight bowers , " which have been so well described as constituting the material elements of poetry . His colouring , too , is oc- casionally heightened by ...
... soft airs and sounds , and bright skies , and woodland solitudes , and moonlight bowers , " which have been so well described as constituting the material elements of poetry . His colouring , too , is oc- casionally heightened by ...
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... by , And did out - red the same . But , pretty fondling , let not fall A teare at all for that ; Which rubies , corralls , scarlets , all For tincture , wonder at . SOFT MUSICK . THE mellow touch of musick most doth 14 HESPERIDES .
... by , And did out - red the same . But , pretty fondling , let not fall A teare at all for that ; Which rubies , corralls , scarlets , all For tincture , wonder at . SOFT MUSICK . THE mellow touch of musick most doth 14 HESPERIDES .
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Robert Herrick Thomas Maitland (lord Dundrennan). SOFT MUSICK . THE mellow touch of musick most doth wound The soule , when it doth rather sigh then sound . THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT KINGS AND SUBJECTS . ' TWIXT kings and subjects ther's ...
Robert Herrick Thomas Maitland (lord Dundrennan). SOFT MUSICK . THE mellow touch of musick most doth wound The soule , when it doth rather sigh then sound . THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT KINGS AND SUBJECTS . ' TWIXT kings and subjects ther's ...
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... soft nerv❜lits were embrac'd ; About her head I writhing hung , And with rich clusters , ( hid among The leaves ) her temples I behung ; So that my Lucia seem'd to me , Young Bacchus ravisht by his tree . My curles about her neck did ...
... soft nerv❜lits were embrac'd ; About her head I writhing hung , And with rich clusters , ( hid among The leaves ) her temples I behung ; So that my Lucia seem'd to me , Young Bacchus ravisht by his tree . My curles about her neck did ...
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Page 175 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 93 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see't? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May...
Page 94 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, come, let's go...
Page 115 - Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
Page 93 - ... ere this is come Back, and with white-thorn laden home. Some have despatched their cakes and cream, Before that we have left to dream: And some have wept and woo'd, and plighted troth, And chose their priest, ere we can cast off sloth : Many a green-gown has been given, Many a kiss, both odd and even: Many a glance, too, has been sent From out the eye, love's firmament: Many a jest told of the keys...
Page 247 - Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely Leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er...
Page 20 - Myrha, for the lute and voice ; Next, Corinna, for her wit, And the graceful use of it, With Perilla : All are gone...
Page 97 - Where so much syrup ran at waste : Besides, know this, I never sting The flower that gives me nourishing; But with a kiss, or thanks, do pay For honey that I bear away. This said, he laid his little scrip Of honey 'fore her ladyship; And told her, as some tears did fall, That, that he took, and that was all. At which she...
Page 114 - To THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting. The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse...
Page 83 - TO DIANEME. SWEET, be not proud of those two eyes Which starlike sparkle in their skies ; Nor be you proud, that you can see All hearts your captives ; yours yet free : Be you not proud of that rich hair Which wantons with the lovesick air ; Whenas that ruby which you wear, Sunk from the tip of your soft ear, Will last to be a precious stone When all your world of beauty's gone.