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So ( though ' gainst Natures course ) fire may be quencht With fire , and water be with water drencht ; Perhaps my restlesse soule , tyr'de with persuit Of mortall beauty , seeking without fruit Contentment there , which hath not ...
So ( though ' gainst Natures course ) fire may be quencht With fire , and water be with water drencht ; Perhaps my restlesse soule , tyr'de with persuit Of mortall beauty , seeking without fruit Contentment there , which hath not ...
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But as it plainly doth appear , That fire subsists by being near The Moons bright Orbe , so I beleeve Ours doth , for hope keeps love alive . 40 a Instead of Earth unto this frame , I had a faith was still the same , For to be right it ...
But as it plainly doth appear , That fire subsists by being near The Moons bright Orbe , so I beleeve Ours doth , for hope keeps love alive . 40 a Instead of Earth unto this frame , I had a faith was still the same , For to be right it ...
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But if her wisdom grow severe , And suffer not her goodness to be there ; If her large mercies cruelly it restrain ; Be not discourag'd , but require A more gentle Ordeal Fire , And bid her by Loves - Flames read it again .
But if her wisdom grow severe , And suffer not her goodness to be there ; If her large mercies cruelly it restrain ; Be not discourag'd , but require A more gentle Ordeal Fire , And bid her by Loves - Flames read it again .
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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 |
John Donne | 71 |
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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1959 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2018 |
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