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... canst not tame , When once it is within thee ; but before May'st rule it , as thou list and pour the shame Which it would pour on thee , upon the floor . It is most just to throw that on the ground , Which would throw me there , if I ...
... canst not tame , When once it is within thee ; but before May'st rule it , as thou list and pour the shame Which it would pour on thee , upon the floor . It is most just to throw that on the ground , Which would throw me there , if I ...
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... canst not fly By dressing , mistressing , and complement . If those take up thy day , the Sun will cry Against thee ; for his light was only lent . God gave thy soul brave wings ; put not those feathers Into a bed , to sleep out all ill ...
... canst not fly By dressing , mistressing , and complement . If those take up thy day , the Sun will cry Against thee ; for his light was only lent . God gave thy soul brave wings ; put not those feathers Into a bed , to sleep out all ill ...
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... thy fame at every twitch will break : By great deeds show , that thou canst little do ; And do them not that shall thy wisdom be ; And change thy temperance into bravery . If that thy fame with every toy be posed , 10 THE TEMPLE .
... thy fame at every twitch will break : By great deeds show , that thou canst little do ; And do them not that shall thy wisdom be ; And change thy temperance into bravery . If that thy fame with every toy be posed , 10 THE TEMPLE .
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... canst speak , at once ; but husband it , And give men turns of speech : do not forestall By lavishness thine own , and others ' wit , As if thou madest thy will . A civil guest Will no more talk all , than eat all the feast . Be calm in ...
... canst speak , at once ; but husband it , And give men turns of speech : do not forestall By lavishness thine own , and others ' wit , As if thou madest thy will . A civil guest Will no more talk all , than eat all the feast . Be calm in ...
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... Canst thou find hell about my lips ? and miss Of life , just at the gates of life and bliss ? Was ever grief like mine ? See , they lay hold on me , not with the hands Of faith , but fury ; yet at their commands I suffer binding , who ...
... Canst thou find hell about my lips ? and miss Of life , just at the gates of life and bliss ? Was ever grief like mine ? See , they lay hold on me , not with the hands Of faith , but fury ; yet at their commands I suffer binding , who ...
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Page xiii - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Page xxxi - THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Page 195 - Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Page 160 - All wasted ? Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Page xxiv - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Page 167 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Page vi - Ireland, who was then chief master of that school ; where the beauties of his pretty behaviour and wit shined and became so eminent and lovely in this his innocent age, that he seemed to be marked out for piety, and to become the care of Heaven, and of a particular good angel to guard and guide him.
Page 88 - My stuff is flesh, not brass; my senses live, And grumble oft that they have more in me Than he that curbs them, being but one to five— Yet I love thee.
Page 18 - Sum up at night what thou hast done by day ; And in the morning, what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul ; mark the decay And growth of it. If, with thy watch, that too Be down, then wind up both. Since we shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
Page 37 - With Thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day Thy victories : Then shall the fall further the flight in me.