Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written on Several Occasions |
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Page 67
... swift , cold trembling seiz'd on every part ; My head turn'd round , nor could it bear The Poison that was enter'd there . 2 . So a destroying Angels breath Blows in the Plague , and with it hasty Death . Such was the pain , did so ...
... swift , cold trembling seiz'd on every part ; My head turn'd round , nor could it bear The Poison that was enter'd there . 2 . So a destroying Angels breath Blows in the Plague , and with it hasty Death . Such was the pain , did so ...
Page 74
... Swift as the wings of Time ' tis measur'd by . T'imagine then that Love should never cease ( Love which is but the Ornament of these ) Were quite as senseless , as to wonder why Beauty and Colour stays not when we dye . Not Fair . Is ...
... Swift as the wings of Time ' tis measur'd by . T'imagine then that Love should never cease ( Love which is but the Ornament of these ) Were quite as senseless , as to wonder why Beauty and Colour stays not when we dye . Not Fair . Is ...
Page 113
... swift course restrain . 2 . Though constant , and consistent now it be , Yet , when kind beams appear , It melts , and glides apace into the Sea , And loses it self there . So the Suns amorous play , Kisses the Ice away . H 3 . You may ...
... swift course restrain . 2 . Though constant , and consistent now it be , Yet , when kind beams appear , It melts , and glides apace into the Sea , And loses it self there . So the Suns amorous play , Kisses the Ice away . H 3 . You may ...
Page 150
... swift current to those joys they haste , That do as swiftly waste , I laught the wanton play to view , But ' tis , alas , at Land so too , And still old Lovers yield the place to new . 4 . Kiss her , and as you part , you am'orous Waves ...
... swift current to those joys they haste , That do as swiftly waste , I laught the wanton play to view , But ' tis , alas , at Land so too , And still old Lovers yield the place to new . 4 . Kiss her , and as you part , you am'orous Waves ...
Page 158
... swift Forefathers has outgone . 2 . I They through rough ways , o're many stops they past , Till on the fatal bank at last 2 They Agrigentum built , the beauteous Eye Of fair - fac'ed Sicilie , 3 4 2 Which does it self i'th ' River by ...
... swift Forefathers has outgone . 2 . I They through rough ways , o're many stops they past , Till on the fatal bank at last 2 They Agrigentum built , the beauteous Eye Of fair - fac'ed Sicilie , 3 4 2 Which does it self i'th ' River by ...
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Page 280 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 361 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Page 211 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 217 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 49 - Elisha-like (but with a wish much less, More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) Not that thy spirit might on me doubled be, I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me ; And when my muse soars with so strong a wing, 'Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing.
Page 41 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries, Numberless, nameless...
Page 217 - Judgment also will I lay to the line, And righteousness to the plummet: And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Page 395 - And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
Page 57 - Tis filled wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king. All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants, belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice...
Page 15 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.