Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol. III
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- PrefaceSample
- NATHANIEL WHITING
- 20 Old dormant windows must confess
- 70 When bodies join and victory hovers
- 30 Makes pearls and planets humble heraldry.
- 50 Unites all senses in each action.
- 90 Hyperboles are here but sacrilege.
- 10 Are you Sir Thomas and Sir Martin too?
- 30 Subscribed two consuls with one Julius.
- 10 His death the ocean might turn Helicon.
- 40 His shipwreck now more than his merchandise.
- 40 Thy sweetness with a double tongue)
- 60 Changes gender but thy heart.
- 10 Slice one in two to keep her number just.
- 40 The lawful issue of his ashes swear.
- 10 You grow inspired by th' oracle of the glass;
- 20 And why may not we in their imitation?
- 30 Then falls he to use and application next;
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- 40 Room but to peep with half an eye;
- 30 Killing a sheep thought Agamemnon slain;
- 50 But we subscribe neither to Scot nor Jew.
- 80 Throughout all Ovid's Metamorphoses.]
- Act V.
- 20 First cast thy hieroglyphic skin.
- 50 The penance of the Alps in snow;
- 50 But means to speak the rest by signs.
- 10 The moonshine of your light can clear.
- 30 Than wash thy Ethiopian skin.
- 10 Fell presently to cudgels with the Oath.
- 40 By all the Father Garnets that stand by it;
- 70 Whose lungs pay use on use to half a score.
- 90 The groom is rampant but the bride displayed.
- 80 But in obedience to the ordinance.
- Preface
- 10 His ruins prove him a religious house!
- 50 That checks his rays to this apostasy?
- 90 Riddles inhabited; the like is here.
- 30 With all the scorpions that should whip this age.
- 80 Who use to hang their teeth upon their belt.
- 30 Parched to a drought beyond the Lybian sand!
- 60 By your own sword our just revenge be wrought.
- 20 The literal and equitable sense
- 70 By which that vast triumvirate is spanned.
- 10 The People's violent love and hate;
- 10 From a Geneva jig up to the spheres.
- 40 Shines in his showers as if he wept his beams.
- 40 When the thick shell of his Welsh pedigree
- 10 Dallied more wantonly
- 30 My stical grammar of amorous glances;
- 10 Touch such a filthy sus
- 40 As this foul gypsy quean.
- 10 They'll now in their wives' stammel petticoats vapour
- 40 And at the next bear-baiting (full of his sack)
- 10 In a box-knot cut by the Directory:
- 40 The same the Scotch executor rebounds;
- 60 His finger 's thicker than the prelates' loins.'
- 20 No more of your calcining flame!
- 20 That alm'ner of transpiring balm;
- 40 Like a thick-branching pedigree.
- 70 Ravaillac to my Queen of Love!
- 30 The world thy worth; they kenned thee well.
- 30 And then my lips shall kiss them dry;
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- 20 Nature's commendam must be likewise nursed.
- 40 She that 's now seated on Mount Ararat.
- 30 This profound Vulcan 'bove that Wagoner.
- 70 Made not to ruin but enrich our Troy.
- 50 Weapon yet left to guard him to his throne.
- 80 This our Josias had a Jeremy.
- INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS STANLEY
- THOMAS STANLEY
- 10 Whose constancy disdains t' allow
- 10 Look in my heart where Love thy picture drew;
- 10 To parallel my Chariessa's cheek;
- 10 As to become in love a reprobate?
- 10 Since thou (Love's votary before
- 10 Doth th' obsequious iron move;
- 20 And thus united be by death's divorce.
- 20 All those cunning charms avoid;
- THE DEDICATION
- 20 And the day disclose its name.
- 50 To blot my name
- 10 Make far more noise than Celia's breath in sleep.
- 10 To feed a new disease?
- 20 And not confin'd thine eye?
- 10 Why first my own redress do I not crave?
- 10 The re is more liberty in Death than Love.
- 30 Have equal power to love or animate.]
- 10 As like thyself no crime hath known;
- 20 Oh tak't again!
- 10 With that triumphant spoil adorns his brow.
- 10 From the whiter of thy hand.
- 20 With their youthful sweetness take me;
- 40 Or who forceth me to love:
- 20 Even in divorce united.
- Preface
- 10 Methought this rival did possess:
- 10 I back again
- 20 And I in death shall be delighted.
- 10 Now the rubies doth impair
- 10 Than his on me should be?
- 10 Yet bleed within.
- 10 And each is two in skill;
- 10 Thousands of lovers from the grave:
- 10 Me from my Fair dost thou detain?
- 20 Forsaken cypress and sad yew;
- 10 That all her curious labours thou
- 10 Thou in like flames mayst burn;
- 10 Or these my soul ensnare;
- 20 As now thou sufferest mine.
- 10 Must meet my flames with equal fires.
- 10 Must meet it with no less disdain;
- 10 A higher praise to crown thee;
- 10 Perfections earlier ages call
- 20 Nor longer at my destiny repine:
- Preface
- 10 The very act did expiate what was done.
- 20 Can only overtake and stop the last)
- 10 For praise is bounded when the theme is not:
- 50 Who did the soul with fourfold power invest.
- 70 Abstain from; thy mind's reins let reason guide:
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- 20 Let me no more these fetters wear!
- Preface
- 10 Dig our Loves Tombe.
- 20 The murmur of the purling brook my knell;
- 10 Enjoy thy dearest wish: but see
- 10 When Love in Beauty buried is!
- 10 Whose soft spells charm a troubled breast:
- 10 No husband but a ravisher is found:
- 10 Which yet unthaw'd does on her bosom grow;
- 10 Like that the sooty Indian turns.
- 10 Prolong my winter all the year:
- 10 Thy beauty withers too. And swift decay
- 10 Faster than all the leaden chains of night.
- 20 Which may expound and construe ev'ry Act:
- 30 Than all the nard fragrant Arabia bears.
- 60 Am both testator thus and legacy.
- 20 Or suffer by your own prerogative.
- 20 To mar it through my incapacity.
- 20 I could not choose but blab it? swear how much
- 60 And for thy sake fall out with all the sex.
- 40 Than is that She with whom he acted it.
- 20 A richer beauty in her mind;
- 10 Of a new star risen and seen at Court;
- 30 And change his royal palace for a tomb.
- 70 MS.
- 10 The warmth and virtue of his flaming wheel.
- 30 To crown Your fame and memory in death.
- 50 Whose softest accents will out-tongue my verse.
- 20 Conspire to make the treach'rous sands thy grave:
- 30 My love and fortune first did run;
- 90 To meet thee in that hollow vale:
- 20 And I must slowly waste; I then of force
- 20 By taking this inheritance of dust.
- 20 Acquaintance: Like such as are only paid
- 60 He that mankind's extraction shall look
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- 10 Should let so dear an obligation die
- 50 Yet Death shall fix and anchor Me with You.
- 10 When greater the unable debtor break.
- 40 As prisoners at the bar their doom receive.
- 60 The force or merit of Your marriage-vow;
- 90 Empty and angry at the night's mistake.
- 20 Thou'lt rhyme me back again into my wits.
- 80 Thus strive to canonize thy memory.
- 48 MS.
- 10 And mix'd the guilty channel with her blood.
- 30 Which more renowned is than all thy race;
- 20 Is weak and dull to strike us with amaze
- 20 The groaning bosom of the patient ground:
- 50 Than with embased coin those rites defray.
- 30 No lower centre now than Sweden's grave.
- 50 Alas! they could not: Destiny gives place
- 90 Needs borrow no addition from him.
- 90 To inoffensive travellers they be:
- 10 Only with custom's eye upon your book;
- 50 Which in God's City the blest centre hath:
- 70 They now become a perfect harmony.
- 90 An old ill practice for a better lose.
- 10 The ground they sow shall not return the seed.
- 70 They are but fools in a sublime degree:
- 90 Let It and Him with speed together come.
- 50 Were sure in change to gain a monarchy?
- 80 Doth them and me alike to nothing turn.
- Preface
- 10 The Spring entomb'd in Autumn lies;
- 10 Covers alike deceased day and thee.
- 30 Before I fall into the silent grave.
- 50 And without labour not be nourished:
- 80 Which often reels and falls before his set;
- 35 MS.
- 10 Which to thy precious memory are due.
- 30 Maim'd in her noblest patterns through thy fail;
- 20 Should we not fall in equal obsequies?
- 40 All graces of your sex concentred were.
- 40 Contracted be into a span of dust.
- 80 Henceforth no more usurp the soldier's name:
- Preface
- 20 Charles with the best of Judah's Kings compare:
- 40 Though not (like him) so facile to reveal
- 90 Did suit the then too powerful faction's ends:
- 10 In sending Virtue to her place of rest;
- Preface
- 10 His dart of lead.
- 40 So thou giv'st him greeting.
- 70 A she-friend and an honour
- 30 May'st thou attain John the Divine
- 10 Nor think of such a thing.
- TO HIS
- 10 That till this time the over-teeming press
- 80 Which is indeed but the reverse of it;
- Preface
- 30 Next unto his immortally shall shine.
- 10 How much I value what is writ so well;
- 30 And renders Death desirable as Sleep.
- 10 The Trojan chief
- 60 Oft to their outmost reach She will extend
- 40 Then I resolv'd
- Preface
- 30 Which kept the world in awe:
- 70 Your bleeding wounds who shall hereafter dress
- 30 Together blended in the general lot!
- 50 Disorders Nature like an hurricane.
- 80 Verse that from wind articulates a name;
- 20 His powerful numbers might have done you right;
- 60 He seem'd as if at Gath he still had bin
- 80 And put their willing necks under his yoke.
- 40 Which gave me breath;
- 70 Stoops yet once more to a new conqueror:
- Preface
- 20 But fancies that he sees him come.
- 20 That lies on th' other side Death's Rubicon.
- 10 His best estate is altogether vain.
- 20 Like incense or the morning sacrifice.
- 10 Than this Divine Epitome of woe.
- 40 Or breathe a wish that I might thither go:
- 40 But the Grand Gaol-Delivery?
- 70 Irrevocable words shall pass on men;
- 20 Ingreditur Popularis Aura.
- 10 Fears not the dreadful precipice below.
- 40 The eyes of Heaven close in eternal sleep;
- 10 Or dust and ashes into Judgement bring?
- 10 Thy glorious valour is a theme too high
- Preface
- 40 The traitors now in triumph ride
- 60 Now like a little negro's bought and sold.
- 10 They'll find their flames vanish on this side the grave;
- 10 What vigour absence adds to love.
- 30 And then eternally farewell.
- 20 As much as me thy ruin'd face.
- 10 Only fools that dread the night;
- 10 Since all my heart is out of frame?
- 10 His mistress' mercy to implore;
- 10 Or after shipwreck do the ocean prove;
- 20 It fetters Kings in charming bands;
- 20 Loosen its roots to caper; come let's see
- 10 That newly has receiv'd his mortal wound.
- 10 And leave him but an aëry name;
- Preface
- 10 As easily as he may;
- 10 Or trumpets woo away our breath!
- 20 From mortals in a peevish fancy fled:
- 10 How they droop and hang their wings!
- 40 You merit more than our praise: as for us
- 30 Regardless of Eternity.
- 10 In subterranean cosmography.
- 10 Which make men swell too big for the strait gate.
- Preface
- 10 Fidem veriloquo adhibete
- 90 Great is his prowess and his fortune too;
- 20 Sui saeculi
- 30 Only the brave despise their destiny.
- 70 Shall matter of eternal wonder find;
- 90 One cheerful hour!
- 13 Him
- 10 And with his fellow Wanderers agrees
- 20 And deep devotion shall attend his urn;
- 10 For every Sea-nymph of the glittering crowd
- 40 Has my ador'd Menalcas left behind
- 8 Et quod excurrit
- 20 Vestrum undequaquam Inopes
- 20 Should be submitted to my theme?
- 80 And seem'd its dear Anointed to disown;
- 20 The mati meo prostitueretur?
- 90 Nam retrocedens pugnasti more Parthico
- 20 Should to our primitive dust repair;
- 40 And make babes learn in after days
- Book II. Ode XIX.
- 20 In tune and time stagger and dance.
- Book III. Ode XII.
- Book III. Ode XVII.
- Book III. Ode XIX.
- Book III. Ode III.
- 20 And be the trumpet of thy fame:
- Book IV. Ode XI.
- 30 Happy that couple that in years agree!
- 20 Himself scarce free from fear:
- 10 Now fie upon me! all about the town
- 30 Thou bad'st me home to bed:
- 50 Struck her defaming poet blind;
- 20 And Sisyphus stop his rolling stone:
- 60 I'd ne'er believe so bright a star could fall.
- 70 As Orpheus did Eurydice from hell.
- 20 None so sublime as sympathy.
- 40 But in the sentiments of a wellpleas'd Breast.
- Preface
- 20 And pity what my duty prompts me to.
- 70 And may thy sacred ashes smile to see
- HISTORIE OF
- THE PLEASING HISTORY OF ALBINO AND BELLAMA
- 10 Minos and others strike the selfsame string.
- 40 A man—a knight—the best that ever was.
- 20 Some will be apt to think my pen rehearses
- Preface
- 30 On their knee
- 90 But from such things his genius him deliver!
- 10 In mirthful lays we now admire thy quill.
- THE PLEASING HISTORY OF
- 70 With [this] fair lady curtain-war to wage;
- 90 Could not have oped her breast or pierced her marrow.
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- To his Bellama slighting him.
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- Preface
- 70 Which made Jove call for some nectarean ale
- 80 This is a borrowed line"—"she knows 't by th' touch;