His Winding-shee (Robert Herrick Poems)
Come thou, who art the wine and witOf all I've writ;The grace, the glory, and the bestPiece of the rest;Thou ...
Come thou, who art the wine and witOf all I've writ;The grace, the glory, and the bestPiece of the rest;Thou ...
Jack and Joan they think no ill,But loving live, and merry still;Do their week-days' work, and prayDevoutly on the holy ...
LAST night he lay within my arm, So small, so warm, a mystery To which God only held the key-But mine to ...
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
How blest art thou, canst love the countrey, Wroth, Whether by choyce, or fate, or both!And, though so neere the ...
(A Modernity) Twelve good friends Passed under her hat, And devil a one of them Knew where he was at. Had they but known, Then had they known all things, — The littleness of great things, The unmeasured immensity of small things. They had known the Where and the Why, The When and the Wherefore, And how the Eternal Conceived the Eternal, and therefore Beginning began the Beginning; They had apprehended The ultimate virtue of sinning; They had caught the whisper That Vega vibrates to Arcturus, Piercing the walls Of heavy flesh that immure us. But if they had known, Then had there been no mystery; And Life had been poorer, And laughter unsurer, And the shadow of death securer, By lack of this brief history.(Charles G. D. Roberts)
For thy dear safety, not for mine own ease, I am thus kindly cruel, unhappy girl! Securer far than thine, ...
Come thou, who art the wine and wit Of all I've writ; The grace, the glory, and the best Piece ...
Contained in this short Life Are magical extents The soul returning soft at night To steal securer thence As Children ...
To the Lord Fairfax. See how the arched Earth does here Rise in a perfect Hemisphere! The stiffest Compass could ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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