Love Poems – Page 52
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To Mr. Lawrence
Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son, / Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire, / Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire … -
To Cyriack Skinner
Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench / Of Brittish Themis, with no mean applause / Pronounc't and in his volumes taught our Lawes, … -
On His Deceased Wife
Methought I saw my late espousèd Saint / Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, / Whom Joves great Son to her glad Husband gave, … -
Light
Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born, / Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam / May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, … -
From 'Samson Agonistes'
Oh how comely it is and how reviving / To the Spirits of just men long opprest! / When God into the hands of thir deliverer … -
A Doubt of Martyrdom
O FOR some honest lover's ghost, / Some kind unbodied post / Sent from the shades below! … -
Why so Pale and Wan?
Why so pale and wan, fond lover? / Prithee, why so pale? / Will, when looking well can't move her, … -
A Rose
Blown in the morning, thou shalt fade ere noon. / What boots a life which in such haste forsakes thee? / Thou'rt wondrous frolic, being to die so soon, … -
To Chloe
There are two births; the one when light / First strikes the new awaken'd sense; / The other when two souls unite, … -
Falsehood
Still do the stars impart their light / To those that travel in the night; / Still time runs on, nor doth the hand …
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