Love Poems – Page 50
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The Unfading Beauty
He that loves a rosy cheek, / Or a coral lip admires, / Or from star-like eyes doth seek … -
Ingrateful Beauty threatened
Know, Celia, since thou art so proud, / 'Twas I that gave thee thy renown. / Thou hadst in the forgotten crowd … -
Time
Time is the feather'd thing, / And, whilst I praise / The sparklings of thy looks and call them rays, … -
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara
Ye blushing virgins happy are / In the chaste nunnery of her breasts— / For he'd profane so chaste a fair, … -
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam
when I survey the bright / Celestial sphere; / So rich with jewels hung, that Night … -
A Devout Lover
I HAVE a mistress, for perfections rare / In every eye, but in my thoughts most fair. / Like tapers on the altar shine her eyes; … -
An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford
come, spur away, / I have no patience for a longer stay, / But must go down … -
To a Mistress Dying
Lover.your beauty, ripe and calm and fresh / As eastern summers are, / Must now, forsaking time and flesh, … -
Praise and Prayer
Praise is devotion fit for mighty minds, / The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; / Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: … -
On a Girdle
That which her slender waist confined / Shall now my joyful temples bind; / No monarch but would give his crown …
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