Hesperides, Or Works Both Human and DivineG. Routledge and Sons, 1884 - 319 pages |
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altar Anacreontic Anthea bless blush brave bread bride bring ye love Candlemas chaste cheek Chor Christ comes cowslips crowned dead Dean Prior dear dearest death doth drink ears Endymion Porter eternal eyes fair fall fate fear fire flowers frankincense give glory God's grace grief hair hand hath hear heart heaven hence Herrick Hesperides holy honour John Wicks Julia keep King kiss Leprosy lips live look Lord Lord Hopton love's lute maids meat Mirt mirth Mistress Muses ne'er never night numbers o'er once pearl Perilla pity play poet poor praise pray Prince Robert Herrick roses Saint Sappho sing sleep smile soul spring stay storax sweet tears tell thee there's thine things thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt Tom Pennie twas Twill unto vaults of death verse virgins vows wanton wassail weep wine
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Page 99 - FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the Summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 66 - Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
Page 25 - A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part.
Page 209 - Which though well soil'd, yet thou dost know That the best compost for the lands Is the wise master's feet, and hands. There at the plough thou find'st thy team, With a hind whistling there to them : And cheer'st them up, by singing how The kingdom's portion is the plough. This done, then to th...
Page 88 - To MEADOWS. Ye have been fresh and green, Ye have been fill'd with flowers ; And ye the walks have been Where maids have spent their hours.
Page 157 - TO BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night?
Page 54 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields, and we not see't?
Page 54 - To come forth like the spring-time fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels for your gown or hair : Fear not ; the leaves will strew Gems in abundance upon you : Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
Page 67 - Memorial Of any men that were. How many lie forgot In vaults beneath ? And piecemeal rot Without a fame in death ? Behold this living stone I rear for me, Ne'er to be thrown Down, envious Time, by thee. Pillars let some set up, If so they please : Here is my hope And my Pyramides.
Page 311 - 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.