Love Poems – Page 49
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A Renunciation
We, that did nothing study but the way / To love each other, with which thoughts the day / Rose with delight to us and with them set, … -
Exequy on his Wife
Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint, / Instead of dirges this complaint; / And for sweet flowers to crown thy herse … -
Virtue
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright! / The bridal of the earth and sky— / The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; … -
Discipline
Throw away Thy rod, / Throw away Thy wrath; / O my God, … -
A Dialogue
Man.sweetest Saviour, if my soul / Were but worth the having, / Quickly should I then control … -
The Pulley
when God at first made Man, / Having a glass of blessings standing by— / Let us (said He) pour on him all we can; … -
A Hymn
O FLY, my Soul! What hangs upon / Thy drooping wings, / And weighs them down … -
Death the Leveller
The glories of our blood and state / Are shadows, not substantial things; / There is no armour against Fate; … -
Persuasions to Joy: a Song
If the quick spirits in your eye / Now languish and anon must die; / If every sweet and every grace … -
To His Inconstant Mistress
When thou, poor Excommunicate / From all the joys of Love, shalt see / The full reward and glorious fate …
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