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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But me , oh never let me , Spirits , forget That glorious day , when I your standard bore , And scorning in the second place to sit , With you assaulted heaven , his yoke forswore . My dauntlesse heart yet longs to bleed , and swet In ...
But me , oh never let me , Spirits , forget That glorious day , when I your standard bore , And scorning in the second place to sit , With you assaulted heaven , his yoke forswore . My dauntlesse heart yet longs to bleed , and swet In ...
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One of ten thousand soules I am , and more , That of his eyes , and their sweete wounds complaine , 10 Sweete are the wounds of love , never so sore , Ah might he often slaie mee so againe . He never lives , that thus is never slaine .
One of ten thousand soules I am , and more , That of his eyes , and their sweete wounds complaine , 10 Sweete are the wounds of love , never so sore , Ah might he often slaie mee so againe . He never lives , that thus is never slaine .
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Discontents in Devon More discontents I never had Since I was born , then here ; Where I have been , and still am sad , In this dull Devon - shire : Yet justly too I must confesse ; I ne'r invented such Ennobled numbers for the Presse ...
Discontents in Devon More discontents I never had Since I was born , then here ; Where I have been , and still am sad , In this dull Devon - shire : Yet justly too I must confesse ; I ne'r invented such Ennobled numbers for the Presse ...
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Contents
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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