Richard Lovelace

Poems (9)

• Gratiana Dancing

  She beat the happy pavèment— / By such a star made firmament, …

• Tell Me Not, Sweet, I am Unkind

  Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind / For, from the nunnery …

• The Grasshopper

  O THOU that swing'st upon the waving hair / Of some well-fillèd oaten beard, …

• To Althea, from Prison

  When love with unconfined wings / . . . Hovers within my gates, …

• To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair

  Amarantha sweet and fair / Ah braid no more that shining hair! …

• To Lucasta

  IF to be absent were to be / Away from thee; …

• To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas

  if to be absent were to be / Away from thee; …

• To Lucasta, going to the Wars

  Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, / That from the nunnery …

• To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars

  Tell me not, sweet, I am unkinde, / That from the nunnerie …