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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Coridon ( with his bold Rout ) Hath already beene about For the elder Shepheards dole , And fetch'd in the Summer - pole : Whil'st the rest have built a Bower , To defend them from a shower ; Seil'd ' so close , with boughes all greene ...
Coridon ( with his bold Rout ) Hath already beene about For the elder Shepheards dole , And fetch'd in the Summer - pole : Whil'st the rest have built a Bower , To defend them from a shower ; Seil'd ' so close , with boughes all greene ...
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So strength first made a way ; Then beautie flow'd , then wisdome , honour , pleasure : When almost all was out , God made a stay , Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottome lay . For if I should ( said he ) Bestow ...
So strength first made a way ; Then beautie flow'd , then wisdome , honour , pleasure : When almost all was out , God made a stay , Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottome lay . For if I should ( said he ) Bestow ...
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SOUL My gentler Rest is on a Thought , Conscious of doing what I ought . PLEASURE If thou bee'st with Perfumes pleas'd , Such as oft the Gods appeas'd , Thou in fragrant Clouds shalt show Like another God below .
SOUL My gentler Rest is on a Thought , Conscious of doing what I ought . PLEASURE If thou bee'st with Perfumes pleas'd , Such as oft the Gods appeas'd , Thou in fragrant Clouds shalt show Like another God below .
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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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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1 Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Helen Constance White |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Editor | Helen Constance White |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1951 |
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