The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist: Secular poetryprivate circulation, 1871 - English literature |
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... flame and darkness ridge The void , as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge . And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames . · · From the fixed place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce ...
... flame and darkness ridge The void , as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge . And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames . · · From the fixed place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce ...
Page lxxxvii
... flames , and shoots them back again.1 The poem of " The Eagle " is strangely un- equal and exaggerate : but we must search many contemporary volumes ere we shall come on such a superb portraiture of the imperial bird . What felicity of ...
... flames , and shoots them back again.1 The poem of " The Eagle " is strangely un- equal and exaggerate : but we must search many contemporary volumes ere we shall come on such a superb portraiture of the imperial bird . What felicity of ...
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... flame , bright only in its owne inno- cence , that kindles nothing but a generous thought which , though it may warme the bloud , the fire at highest is but Platonick ; and the 1 = Coarse , and so throughout : see Index of Words 8. v ...
... flame , bright only in its owne inno- cence , that kindles nothing but a generous thought which , though it may warme the bloud , the fire at highest is but Platonick ; and the 1 = Coarse , and so throughout : see Index of Words 8. v ...
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... flames - though dead - new life partake . Whose warmth help'd by your tears shall bring , O're all the tombe a sudden Spring : If crimson flowers , whose drooping heads Shall curtaine o're their mournefull beads : 1 And on 10 POEMS OF ...
... flames - though dead - new life partake . Whose warmth help'd by your tears shall bring , O're all the tombe a sudden Spring : If crimson flowers , whose drooping heads Shall curtaine o're their mournefull beads : 1 And on 10 POEMS OF ...
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... flames agen , Which he at first might have withstood ; Yet , who that saw faire Chloris weep Such sacred dew , with such pure3 grace ; Durst thinke them fainèd teares , or seeke For treason in an angel's face : This is her art , though ...
... flames agen , Which he at first might have withstood ; Yet , who that saw faire Chloris weep Such sacred dew , with such pure3 grace ; Durst thinke them fainèd teares , or seeke For treason in an angel's face : This is her art , though ...
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Amoret beams Ben Jonson bloud breath bright clouds dark dayes dead death dost doth dust e're Earth Essay ETESIA Eugenius Philalethes ev'ry eyes face fair fame fate fear fire flames flowers forc'd give glory griefe grone hæc hath heart heav'n HENRY VAUGHAN Herbert honour I'le Ibid Inglorius is't king leaves light live look Lord LYSIMACHUS MATTHEW HERBERT METRUM mind Misprinted Mount of Olives Muse Nature never night numbers o're Olor Iscanus poem poet Poetry quæ quam Reader rich RIVER USK Satire vi Sejanus shades shew shine Silex Silex Scintillans Silurist skie smiles sorrow soul spirit Spring stars streams sweet tears Thalia Rediviva thee thine things THOMAS VAUGHAN thou art thought tibi title-page Twas unto verse vex'd weep WEST DEREHAM wind wings Wordsworth