The Foil (George Herbert Poems)
If we could see belowThe sphere of vertue, and each shining grace, ...
If we could see belowThe sphere of vertue, and each shining grace, ...
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
NO sooner I pronounced Celindas name, But Troops of wing'd Pow'rs did chant the fame: Not those the Poets Bows ...
I. HEre take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let ...
SO the renowned Ithacensian Queen In Tears for her Telemachus was seen, When leaving Home, he did attempt the Ire ...
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
Take, greedy death, a body here entomd That by a thousand stroakes was made one wound, Where all thy shafts ...
When men for injuryes unsatisfy'd, For hopes cutt off, for debts not fully payd, For legacies in vain expected, mourne ...
You that affright with lamentable notes The servants from their beef, whose hungry throats Vex the grume porter's surly conscience: ...
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Agayne I wrote ...
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote ...
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
FAyre bosome fraught with vertues richest tresure, The neast of loue, the lodging of delight: the bowre of blisse, the ...
YE tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle, do seeke most pretious things to make your gain: and both the Indias ...
TEll me ye merchants daughters did ye see So fayre a creature in your towne before, So sweet, so louely, ...
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude, Yet to be silent were Ingratitude, And Folly too; for if ...
As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on ...
IX Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hath shun'd the broad way and the green, And with ...
This rich Marble doth enterr The honour'd Wife of Winchester, A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir, Besides what her vertues ...
X Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury, Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with ...
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