Sonnets and Poems: (selected)J. Long, 1906 - 152 pages |
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admyre adorne Angels aspyre Astrophel beames beautie behold blisse bowre brest bright Brydale day celestiall Colin cruell Cynthia dart dayes deare delight desyre devize dight doth earth eccho ring Edmund Spenser end my Song eternall eyes Faerie Queene faire fairest farre fayre flame flowers fyre Gabriel Harvey gentle glorie glorious golden goodly grace hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe honour Hymen HYMNE immortall Kindled kynd light live looke Lord lyke mightie mynd night nought Nymph paine peerlesse price pipe pleasure powre praise prayses pride Queene quoth rest runne softly seeke seemd seemes Shepheardes Calendar shepheards shew shyning sight sing Sith sizar skie sorrow soveraine Spenser spright Sunne Sweete Themmes thee things thou doest thought thy selfe trew unto vaine Venus vertue vouchsafe W. M. THACKERAY weene whereof Whilest wight wize wondrous woods wound wyde
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Page 64 - And in thy sable mantle us enwrap, From feare of perrill and foule horror free. Let no false treason seeke us to entrap, Nor any dread disquiet once annoy The safety of our joy: But let the night be calme and quietsome, Without tempestuous storms or sad afray...
Page 41 - Most glorious Lord of life ! that, on this day, Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin ; And, having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win...
Page 65 - O fayrest goddesse, do thou not envy My love with me to spy: For thou likewise didst love, though now unthought, And for a fleece of woll, which privily The Latmian shephard once unto thee brought, His pleasures with thee wrought.
Page 85 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearefull grace and amiable sight ; For of the soule the bodie forme doth take ; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Page 127 - But vaine it is to thinke, by paragone Of earthly things, to judge of things divine : Her power, her mercy, and her wisdome, none Can deeme, but who the Godhead can define.
Page 115 - I gained gifts and goodly grace Of that great lord, which therein wont to dwell, Whose want too well now feels my friendless case.
Page 63 - How chearefully thou lookest from above, And seemst to laugh atweene thy twinkling light, As joying in the sight Of these glad many, which for joy doe sing, That all the woods them answer, and their echo ring!
Page 93 - That they gan cast their state how to increase Above the fortune of their first condition, And sit in God's own seat without commission : The brightest angel, even the child of Light, Drew millions more against their God to fight. Th...
Page 50 - Like as the culver, on the bared bough, Sits mourning for the absence of her mate; And, in her songs, sends many a wishful vow For his return that seems to linger late: So I alone, now left disconsolate, Mourn to myself the absence of my love; And, wand'ring here and there all desolate, Seek with my plaints to match that mournful dove.
Page 111 - Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titans beames, which then did glyster fayre; When I, (whom sullein care, Through discontent of my long fruitlesse stay In Princes Court, and expectation vayne Of idle hopes, which still doe fly away, Like empty shaddowes, did afflict my brayne,) Walkt forth to ease my payne Along the shoare of silver streaming Themmes...