• From “The Nice Valour,” Act III. Sc. 3.
    HENCE, all ye vain delights,
    As short as are the nights
      Wherein you spend your folly!
      There ’s naught in this life sweet,
      If man were wise to see ’t
          But only melancholy,
          O, sweetest melancholy!

    Welcome, folded arms, and fixèd eyes,
    A sigh that piercing mortifies,...

  • Winter is good — his Hoar Delights

    Italic flavor yield

    To Intellects inebriate

    With Summer, or the World —


    Generic as a Quarry

    And hearty — as a Rose —

    Invited with Asperity

    But welcome when he goes.