Love Poems – Page 54
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An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife
To these whom death again did wed / This grave 's the second marriage-bed. / For though the hand of Fate could force … -
To Lucasta, going to the Wars
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, / That from the nunnery / Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind … -
To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas
if to be absent were to be / Away from thee; / Or that when I am gone … -
Gratiana Dancing
She beat the happy pavèment— / By such a star made firmament, / Which now no more the roof envìes! … -
The Grasshopper
O THOU that swing'st upon the waving hair / Of some well-fillèd oaten beard, / Drunk every night with a delicious tear … -
Anacreontics
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks and gapes for drink again; / The plants suck in the earth, and are … -
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey
It was a dismal and a fearful night: / Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling Light, / When Sleep, Death's image, left my troubled breast … -
The Wish
Well then! I now do plainly see / This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. / The very honey of all earthly joy … -
The Resolve
Tell me not of a face that 's fair, / Nor lip and cheek that 's red, / Nor of the tresses of her hair, … -
An Horatian Ode
The forward youth that would appear / Must now forsake his Muses dear, / Nor in the shadows sing …
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