Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Volume One: Poets included are Lancelot Andrewes, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Burton, Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, George Wither, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Thomas Carew, Sir Thomas Browne, Sir William Davenant, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan. |
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Earth , let not thy envious shade Dare it selfe to interpose ; CYNTHIAS shining orbe was made 10 Heaven to cleere , when day did close : 10 Blesse us then with wished sight , Goddesse , excellently bright . Lay thy bow of pearle apart ...
Earth , let not thy envious shade Dare it selfe to interpose ; CYNTHIAS shining orbe was made 10 Heaven to cleere , when day did close : 10 Blesse us then with wished sight , Goddesse , excellently bright . Lay thy bow of pearle apart ...
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The Same bright Busynes ( ye Third HEAVENS ) " with you . Gentle SPIRITS , doe not complain . We will have care To keep it fair , And send it back to you again . Come , lovely NAME ! Appeare from forth the Bright Regions of peacefull ...
The Same bright Busynes ( ye Third HEAVENS ) " with you . Gentle SPIRITS , doe not complain . We will have care To keep it fair , And send it back to you again . Come , lovely NAME ! Appeare from forth the Bright Regions of peacefull ...
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My dew , my dew ! my early love , My souls bright food , thy absence kills ! Hover not long , eternal Dove ! 83 Life without thee is loose and spills . Somthing " I had , which long ago Did learn to suck , and sip , and taste , But now ...
My dew , my dew ! my early love , My souls bright food , thy absence kills ! Hover not long , eternal Dove ! 83 Life without thee is loose and spills . Somthing " I had , which long ago Did learn to suck , and sip , and taste , But now ...
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The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Francis Bacon | 43 |
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