Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose: Wishes : to his (supposed) mistresseVolume 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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... thou fall'st my tongue . Hee stood , a Souldier " to the last right end , A perfect Patriot , and a noble friend , But most a vertuous Sonne . All Offices were done By him , so ample , full , and round , In weight , in measure ...
... thou fall'st my tongue . Hee stood , a Souldier " to the last right end , A perfect Patriot , and a noble friend , But most a vertuous Sonne . All Offices were done By him , so ample , full , and round , In weight , in measure ...
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Fall on me like a silent dew , Or like those Maiden showrs , Which , by the peepe of day , doe strew A Baptime " o're the flowers . Melt , melt my paines , With thy soft straines ; That having ease me given , With full delight , I leave ...
Fall on me like a silent dew , Or like those Maiden showrs , Which , by the peepe of day , doe strew A Baptime " o're the flowers . Melt , melt my paines , With thy soft straines ; That having ease me given , With full delight , I leave ...
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103 The Water - fall With what deep murmurs through times silent stealth Doth thy transparent , cool and watry wealth Here flowing fall , And chide , and call , As if his liquid , loose Retinue staid Lingring , and were of this steep ...
103 The Water - fall With what deep murmurs through times silent stealth Doth thy transparent , cool and watry wealth Here flowing fall , And chide , and call , As if his liquid , loose Retinue staid Lingring , and were of this steep ...
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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose: Wishes : to his (supposed) mistresse Volume 1 of Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Helen Constance White |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Editors | Helen Constance White, Ruth Coons Wallerstein, Ricardo Quintana |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Jun 2006 |
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