Song from ‘Lycidus’ (Aphra Behn Poems)
"A CONSTANCY in love I'll prize, And be to beauty true: And doat on all the lovely eyes, ...
"A CONSTANCY in love I'll prize, And be to beauty true: And doat on all the lovely eyes, ...
Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train, Fair Sacharissa lov'd, but lov'd in vain; Like Phoebus sung the ...
Think of our blindness where the water burned! Are we so certain that those wings, returned And turning, we had ...
I. HOw comes the Day orecast ? the Flaming Sun Darkn'd at Noon, as if his Course were run ? ...
NExt Heaven my Vows to thee (O Sacred Muse! ) I offer'd up, nor didst thou them refuse. O Queen ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
THe laurell leafe, which you this day doe weare, guies me great hope of your relenting mynd: for since it ...
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood, Knowing the truth of things unseen before; Of Daphne and ...
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the Palm, the Oke, or Bayes; And their uncessant Labours see Crown'd from ...
HOW vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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