English Literature: The Seventeenth CenturyEvert Mordecai Clark C. Scribner's sons, 1930 - 543 pages |
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... soul with happiness . All my joys besides are folly ; None so sweet as melancholy . When I lie , sit , or walk alone , I sigh , I grieve , making great moan , In a dark grove , or irksome den , With discontents and furies then , A ...
... soul with happiness . All my joys besides are folly ; None so sweet as melancholy . When I lie , sit , or walk alone , I sigh , I grieve , making great moan , In a dark grove , or irksome den , With discontents and furies then , A ...
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... soul , had from above This endless , holy fire . 1646 20 SILEX SCINTILLANS THE RETREAT HAPPY those early days , when I Shined in my angel - infancy , Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race , 1 Or taught my soul to ...
... soul , had from above This endless , holy fire . 1646 20 SILEX SCINTILLANS THE RETREAT HAPPY those early days , when I Shined in my angel - infancy , Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race , 1 Or taught my soul to ...
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... soul with too much stay Is drunk , and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love , But I by backward steps would move , And , when this dust falls to the urn , In that state I came , return . 20 30 PEACE MY SOUL , there is a ...
... soul with too much stay Is drunk , and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love , But I by backward steps would move , And , when this dust falls to the urn , In that state I came , return . 20 30 PEACE MY SOUL , there is a ...
Contents
INTRODUCTIONEvert MORDECAI CLARK | lxvi |
William Browne 1591?1643 | 5 |
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke | 12 |
Copyright | |
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ABRAHAM COWLEY ancient angels arms beauty Ben Jonson blessed bright burning called dark death delight divine DOROTHY OSBORNE doth earth English eternal eyes fair fate fear fire flames flowers glory grace hand happy hast hath heart Heaven Hell HENRY LAWES holy honor hope immortal JOHN MILTON King labor learned letters light live look Lord lost Lycidas melancholy mind morning mortal Muse nature never night o'er pain Paradise Lost pleasure poem poetry poets praise Prince Puritan rest RICHARD CRASHAW RICHARD LOVELACE ROBERT HERRICK Satan scholar sense sing SIR JOHN SUCKLING sleep song soul spirits sweet tell Temple thee thine things THOMAS CAREW THOMAS TRAHERNE thou thoughts tion unto verse virtue wake walk WILLIAM DAVENANT wind wings youth