The Hesperides & Noble Numbers, Volumen 2Lawrence & Bullen, 1891 |
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Anthea behold bless brave bread bride CANDLEMAS Charon Chor Christ comes crown crown'd dead Dean Prior dear dearest doth drink Endymion Porter EPIG Epigrams eternal eyes fall Fantasticks Farewell fate fear fire fits a little frankincense gentle George Parry give God's grace Grosart hand hath hear heart heaven hell hence Henry Lawes Herrick Hesperides holy honour Julia keep King kiss known live look Lord LORD HOPTON Love's maids mercy mirth MISTRESS Muses ne'er never NEW-YEAR'S GIFT night o'er once pearl play poem poets poor Post and pair praise pray prince Printed in Witt's queen rich ROBERT HERRICK roses Saffron Walden SAPPHO sing sleep soul spring storax tears tell thee there's thine things thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt Trentall unto verse virgins wanton wassail weep Whenas wine Witt's Recreations
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Página 287 - I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free': Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Página 21 - Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee, And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
Página 32 - The Hag. THE hag is astride This night for to ride, The devil and she together ; Through thick and through thin, Now out and then in, Though ne'er so foul be the weather. A thorn or a burr She takes for a spur ; With a lash of a bramble she rides now, Through brakes and through briars, O'er ditches and mires, She follows the spirit that guides now.
Página 201 - Sleep in thy peace, thy bed of spice, And make this place all paradise; May sweets grow here, and smoke from hence Fat frankincense; Let balm and cassia send their scent From out thy maiden-monument.
Página 186 - Some brittle sticks of thorn or briar Make me a fire, Close by whose living coal I sit, And glow like it. Lord, I confess too, when I dine, The pulse is Thine, And all those other bits that be There placed by Thee: The worts, the purslain, and the mess Of water-cress; Which of Thy kindness Thou hast sent; And my content Makes those, and my beloved beet, To be more sweet.
Página 185 - A THANKSGIVING TO GOD FOR HIS HOUSE Lord, Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell, A little house, whose humble roof Is weather-proof, Under the spars of which I lie Both soft and dry; Where Thou, my chamber for to ward, Hast set a guard Of harmless thoughts, to watch and keep Me while I sleep. 10 Low is my porch, as is my fate, Both void of state; And yet the threshold of my door Is worn by th' poor, Who thither come and freely get Good words or meat.
Página 222 - In this world, the Isle of Dreams, While we sit by sorrow's streams, Tears and terrors are our themes, Reciting : But when once from hence we fly, More and more approaching nigh Unto young eternity, Uniting In that whiter Island, where Things are evermore sincere ; Candour here, and lustre there, Delighting : — There no monstrous fancies shall Out of hell an horror call, To create, or cause at all Affrighting.
Página 39 - And trace the hare i' th' treacherous snow; Thy witty wiles to draw, and get The lark into the trammel net ; Thou hast thy cockrood and thy glade To take the precious pheasant made; Thy lime-twigs, snares, and pitfalls then, To catch the pilfering birds, not men. O happy life! if that their good The husbandmen but understood, Who all the day themselves do please, And younglings, with such sports as these, And, lying down, have nought t' affright Sweet sleep, that makes more short the night.
Página 60 - I've none, A Cock, I have, to sing how day drawes on. I have A maid (my Prew) by good luck sent, To save ' That little, Fates me gave or lent.
Página 10 - The sweets of love are mix'd with tears. Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending (yet it doth not break) ? I will answer : These discover What fainting hopes are in a lover.