The British Poets, Volume 4Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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Page 258 - Of the heav'ns rule, yet, very sooth to say, In all things else she beares the greatest sway: Which makes me loath this state of life so tickle, And love of things so vaine to cast away; Whose flowring pride, so fading and so fickle, Short Time shall soon cut down with his consuming sickle! a
Page 253 - And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray 8 : Upon an huge great earth-pot steane 4 he stood, From whose wide mouth there flowed forth the
Page 299 - daynty Nymphs that in this blessed brooke Doe bathe your brest, Forsake your watrie bowres, and hether looke, At my request. 40 And eke you Virgins that on Parnasse dwell, Whence floweth Helicon, the learned well, Helpe me to blaze Her worthy praise Which in her sexe doth all excell. 45
Page 249 - As from a limbeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld ; That scarse his loosed limbes he hable was to weld. 3
Page 428 - Like Astrophel, which thereinto was made. And in the midst thereof a star appeares, As fairly formd as any star in skyes. Resembling Stella in her freshest yeares, Forth darting beames of beautie from her eyes • im And all the day it standeth full of deow, Which is the teares that from her eyes did flow.
Page 152 - It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore: For some, 1 that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store; And other, that hath litle, askes no more, But in that litle is both rich and wise; For wisedome is most
Page 6 - But mongst them all was none more courteous knight Then Calidore, beloved over all: In whom it seemes that gentlenesse of spright And manners mylde were planted naturall; To which he adding comely guize withall, And gracious speach, did steale mens hearts away : Nathlesse thereto he was full stout and tall, l Won, dwell.
Page 301 - So sweetly they play, And sing all the way, That it a heaven is to heare. " Lo, how finely the Graces can it foote To the instrument: no They dauncen deffly, 4 and singen soote, 5 In their meriment. Wants not a fourth Grace, to make the daunce even ? Let that rowme to my Lady bee yeven.
Page 361 - Sike words bene wynd, and wasten soone in vayne. Piers. Abandon then the base and viler clowne; Lift up thy selfe out of the lowly dust, And sing of bloody Mars, of wars, of giusts; Turne thee to those that weld 3 the awful crowne, 40 To doubted 4 knights, whose woundlesse armour rusts, And helmes unbruzed wexen
Page 392 - Both heaven and heavenly graces do much more," Quoth he, " abound in that same land then this. For there all happie peace and plenteous store aio Conspire in one to make contented blisse : No wayling there nor wretchednesse is heard, No bloodie issues nor no leprosies, No griesly famine, nor no raging sweard, 4 No nightly bordrags,