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I sing the fortune of a luckless p… Whose spotless souls now in one bo… For beauty still is Prodromus to… Crost by the sad stars of nativity… And of the strange enchantment of…
Now fie on foolish love, it not be… Or man or woman know it. Love was not meant for people in t… And they that fondly show it Betray the straw, and features in…
Flattering Hope, away and leave m… She’ll not come, thou dost deceive… Hark the cock crows, th’ envious l… Chides away the silent night; Yet she comes not, oh! how I tire
If thou hadst itch’d after the wil… Of common people, and hadst made t… In writing such as catch’d at pres… I should commend the thing, but no… But thou hast squared thy rules by…
MORTALITY, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones: Here they lie had realms and lands…
It is a statute in deep wisdom’s l… That for his lines none should a p… By wealth and poverty, by less or… But who the same is able to peruse… Nor ought a man his labour dedicat…
Cold Virtue guard me, or I shall… From the next glance a double cale… Of fire and lust! Two flames, two… Dwell in those eyes, whose looser… Would thaw the frozen Russian int…
May I find a woman fair, And her mind as clear as air, If her beauty go alone, ’Tis to me as if’t were none. May I find a woman rich,
Since thou art dead, Clifton, the… A certain end of flesh and blood i… Till then a way was left for man t… Flesh may be made so pure it canno… But now thy unexpected death doth…
Fondly, too curious Nature, to ad… Aurora with the blushes of the mor… Why do her rosy lips breath gums a… Unto the East, and sweet to Parad… Why do her eyes open the day? her…
Sleep not too much; nor longer tha… Within thy bed thy lazy body keep; For when thou, warm awake, shall f… Fond cogitations will assail thee… Then start up early, study, work,…
MY wanton lines doe treate of amo… Such as would bow the hearts of go… Then Venus, thou great Citherean… That hourely tript on the Idalian… Thou laughing Erycina, daygne to…
Like to the weake estate of a poor… To whom sweet fortune hath bene eu… VVhich dayly doth that happy howr… VVhen his poore state may his aff… So fares my loue, not able as the…
Madam, so may my verses pleasing b… So may you laugh at them and not a… ’Tis something to you gladly I wo… But how to do’t I cannot find the… I would avoid the common beaten wa…
Stand still my happiness, and swel… No more, till I consider what tho… Desire of knowledge was man’s fata… For when our parents were in parad… Though they themselves, and all th…