Secular Poems - Softcover

Henry Vaughan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1130088596 ISBN 13: 9781130088595

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...dead! Damon. So violets, so doth the primrose, fall, 25 At once the Spring's pride, and its funeral. Such early sweets get off still in their prime, And stay not here to wear the soil of time; While coarser flowers, which none would miss, if past, To scorching Summers and cold Autumns last. 3 Menalcas. Souls need not time. The early forward things Are always fledged, and gladly use their wings. Or else great parts, when injured, quit the crowd, To shine above still, not behind, the cloud. And is't not just to leave those to the night 3S That madly hate and persecute the light? Who, doubly dark, all negroes do exceed, And inwardly are true black Moors indeed! Damon. The punishment still manifests the sin, As outward signs show the disease within. 4» While worth opprest, mounts to a nobler height, And, palm-like, bravely overtops the weight. So where swift Isca from our lofty hills With loud farewells descends, and, foaming, fills A wider channel, like some great port-vein 4S With large rich streams to fill the humble plain: I saw an oak, whose stately height and shade, Projected far, a goodly shelter made; And from the top with thick diffused boughs In distant rounds grew like a wood-nymph's house. 50 How many garlands won at roundelays Old shepherds hung up in those happy days With knots and girdles, the dear spoils and dress Of such bright maids, as did true lovers bless. And many times had old Amphion made ss His beauteous flock acquainted with this shade; His flock, whose fleeces were as smooth and white As those the welkin shows in moonshine night. Here, when the careless world did sleep, have I In dark records, and numbers nobly high, 60 The visions of our black, but brightest bard From old Amphion's mouth full often heard; With all those plagues ...

Edition details

• Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1130088596
• ISBN 13: 9781130088595
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 26