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Whose pleasing boughes did yeeld a coole fresh air, joying his happinesse when you were there.
Where beeing seated, you might plainely see,
Hills, vales, and woods, as if on bended knee |
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Lanyer:
Description of Cooke-ham |
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Vnconstant Fortune, thou art most too blame,
Who casts vs downe into so lowe a frame:
Where our great friends wee cannot dayly see, |
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Lanyer:
Description of Cooke-ham |
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The trees that were so glorious in our view,
Forsooke both flowres and fruit, when once they knew, Of your depart, their very leaues did wither, |
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Lanyer:
Description of Cooke-ham |
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Each arbour, banke, each seate, each stately tree,
Lookes bare and desolate now for want of thee;
Turning greene tresses into frostie gray, |
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Lanyer:
Description of Cooke-ham |
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COME live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield. |
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Marlowe:
Passionate Shephered to His Love |
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The shepherd swains shall dance and sing,
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love. |
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Marlowe:
Passionate Shephered to His Love |
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IF all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love. |
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Walter Raleigh:
Response to -Passionate Shephered to His Love |
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But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love. |
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Walter Raleigh:
Response to -Passionate Shephered to His Love |
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, |
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Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go; |
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To seem a statesman : as I near it came,
It made me a great face ; I ask'd the name.
A Lord, it cried, buried in flesh, and blood, |
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Ben Jonson:
ON SOMETHING, THAT WALKS SOMEWHERE |
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In comfort of her mother's tears,
Hath placed amongst her virgin-train:
Where, while that severed doth remain, |
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Ben Jonson:
On My First Daughter |
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Which might with half mankind maintain a strife.
All which I meant to praise, and yet I would;
But leave, because I cannot as I should! |
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Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.
Oh, could I lose all father now ! For why
Will man lament the state he should envy? |
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Ben Jonson:
On My First Son |
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Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show
Of touch, or marble; nor canst boast a row
Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold;
Thou hast no lantern, whereof tales are told, |
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Each bank doth yield thee coneys; and the tops
Fertile of wood, Ashore and Sidney’s copse,
To crown thy open table, doth provide |
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Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make/ The better cheeses bring’em, or else send
By their ripe daughters whom they would commend
This way to husbands, and whose baskets bear |
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As if thou, then, wert mine, or I reigned here;
There’s nothing I can wish, for which I stay.
That found King James, when hunting late this way |
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Now, Penshurst, they that will proportion thee
With other edifices, when they see
Those proud, ambitious heaps, and nothing else,
May say, their lords have built, but thy lord dwells. |
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GO and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot, |
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Though at next door we might meet,
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter, |
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FOR God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love ;
Or chide my palsy, or my gout ;
My five gray hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout ;
With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve |
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John Donne:
The Canonization |
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And thus invoke us, "You, whom reverend love
Made one another's hermitage ;
You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage ;
Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove |
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John Donne:
The Canonization |
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LET me pour forth
My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here,
For thy face coins them, and thy stamp they bear,
And by this mintage they are something worth. |
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John Donne:
A Valediction of Weeping |
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To do me more harm than it purposeth :
Since thou and I sigh one another's breath,
Whoe'er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other's death. |
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John Donne:
A Valediction of Weeping |
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Marke but this flea, and marke in this,
How little that which thou deny'st me is;
Me it suck'd first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled bee; |
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'Tis true, then learne how false, feares bee;
Just so much honor, when thou yeeld'st to mee,
Will wast, as this flea's death tooke life from thee. |
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COME live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks. |
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For thee, thou need'st no such deceit,
For thou thyself art thine own bait :
That fish, that is not catch'd thereby,
Alas ! is wiser far tha |
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WHERE, like a pillow on a bed,
A pregnant bank swell'd up, to rest
The violet's reclining head,
Sat we two, one another's best. |
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And if some lover, such as we,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him still mark us, he shall see
Small change when we're to bodies gone. |
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—For graves have learn'd that woman-head,
To be to more than one a bed—
And he that digs it, spies
A bracelet of bright hair about the bone, |
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Which nature, injured by late law, sets free.
These miracles we did ; but now alas !
All measure, and all language, I should pass,
Should I tell what a miracle she was. |
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AS due by many titles I resign
Myself to thee, O God. First I was made
By Thee ; and for Thee, and when I was decay'd |
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O, my black soul, now thou art summoned
By sickness, Death's herald and champion ;
Thou'rt like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done
Treason, and durst not turn to whence he's fled ; |
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This is my play's last scene ; here heavens appoint
My pilgrimage's last mile ; and my race
Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace ;
My span's last inch, my minute's latest point ; |
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At the round earth's imagined corners blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go ; |
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And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And drown in it my sin's black memory.
That Thou remember them, some claim as debt ;
I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget. |
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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ;
For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, |
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Crucify him daily, being now glorified.
O let me then His strange love still admire ;
Kings pardon, but He bore our punishment ;
And Jacob came clothed in vile harsh attire, |
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Simpler and further from corruption ?
Why brook'st thou, ignorant horse, subjection ?
Why dost thou, bull and boar, so sillily
Dissemble weakness, and by one man's stroke die, |
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And can that tongue adjudge thee unto hell,
Which pray'd forgiveness for His foes' fierce spite ?
No, no ; but as in my idolatry
I said to all my profane mistresses, |
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Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend |
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John Donne:
Holy Sonnet 10 |
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| unbind. 'Twas much, that man was made like God before, But, that God should be made like man, much more. |
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John Donne:
Holy Sonnet 11 |
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His jointure in the knotty Trinity
He keeps, and gives to me his death's conquest.
This Lamb, whose death with life the world hath blest, |
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John Donne:
Holy Sonnet 12 |
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Swifter then those, most [swiftnesse] neede require.
In sleepe, a Chariot drawne by wing'd Desire,
I saw; where sate bright Venus Queene of Love,
And at her feete her Sonne, still adding Fire |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 1 |
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Eyes hauing [won], reiecting proues a sting
Killing the budd before the tree doth spring;
Sweet lipps, not louing, doe as poyson proue:
Desire, sight, Eyes, lipps; seeke, see, proue, and finde, |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 5 |
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Love shall loose all his Darts, haue sight, and see
His shame and wishings, hinder happy houres.
Why should we not loues purblinde charmes resist?
Must we be seruile, doing what he list? |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 16 |
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To vs, and mee among the rest opprest,
Giues quiet peace to my poore selfe alone,
And freely grants day leaue; when thou art gone,
To giue cleare light, to see all ill redrest. |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 17 |
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Beesides their sacrifice receiu'd in sight,
Of their chose Saint, mine hid as worthlesse rite,
Grant me to see where I my offerings giue.
Then let me weare the marke of Cupids might, |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 25 |
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WHen everyone to pleasing pastime hies
Some hunt, some hauke, some play, while some delight In sweet discourse, and musicke shewes ioy's might: Yet I my thoughts doe farr aboue these prize. |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 26 |
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So in part we shall not part,
Though we absent be,
Tyme, nor place, nor greatest smart,
Shall my bands make free:
Tyed I am, yet thinke it gaine, |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 28 |
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TAke heed mine eyes, how you your looks doe cast,
Lest they betray my hearts most secret thought:
Be true vnto your selues; for nothing's bought
More deare then Doubt, which brings a Louers fast. |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 39 |
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To make their greater fall to please their will.
Thus shadow they their wicked vile intent,
Colouring euill with a show of good:
While in faire showes their malice so is spent; |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 40 |
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For had he seene, he must haue pitty show'd.
I should not haue beene made this Stage of woe,
Where sad Disasters haue their open show:
O no, more pitty he had sure bestow'd. |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 48 |
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The longer that it lasts the stronger still;
The greater, purer, brighter; and doth fill
No eye with wonder more then hopes still bee.
Bred in my breast, when fires of Loue are free |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 55 |
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MY paine still smother'd in my grieued brest,
Seekes for some ease, yet cannot passage finde,
To be discharg'd of this vnwellcome guest,
When most I striue, more fast his burthens binde. |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 68 |
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Hee vowes nothing but false matter,
And to cousen you hee'l flatter:
Let him gain the hand, hee'l leaue you,
And still glory to deceiue you. |
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Wroth:
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 74 |
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More boundless in my Fancy than my eie:
My eye, which swift as thought contracts the space
That lies between, and first salutes the place |
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John Denham:
Cooper's Hill |
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Term
Oh happiness of sweet retir'd content!
To be at once secure, and innocent.
Windsor the next (where Mars with Venus dwells.
Beauty with strength) above the Valley swells |
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John Denham:
Cooper's Hill |
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The second honour to their Diadem.
Had thy great Destiny but given thee skill,
To know as well, as power to act her will,
That from those Kings, who then thy captives were, |
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John Denham:
Cooper's Hill |
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Who to his Realms that Azure round hath joyn'd,
Which Nature for their bound at first design'd.
That bound, which to the Worlds extreamest ends, |
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John Denham:
Cooper's Hill |
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