The Poems, English and Latin, of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury

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Clarendon Press, 1923 - 169 Seiten
 

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Seite 158 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Seite xx - So when from hence we shall be gone, And be no more, nor you, nor I, As one another's mystery, Each shall be both, yet both but one.
Seite 159 - But they which love indeede looke otherwise, With pure regard and spotlesse true intent Drawing out of the object of their eyes A more refyned forme, which they present Unto their mind, voide of all blemishment; Which it reducing to her first perfection, Beholdeth free from fleshes frayle infection. And then conforming it unto the light, Which in it selfe it hath remaining still, Of that first sunne...
Seite 33 - Tell us, for Oracles must still ascend, For those that crave them at your tomb : Tell us, where are those beauties now become, And what they now intend : Tell us, alas, that cannot tell our grief, Or hope relief.
Seite 158 - For of the soule the bodie forme doth take : For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make. Therefore where ever that thou doest behold A comely corpse, with beautie faire endewed, Know this for certaine, that the same doth hold A beauteous soule, with faire conditions thewed, Fit to receive the seede of vertue strewed. For all that faire is, is by nature good ; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Seite xviii - I WONDER, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers
Seite 63 - And if every imperfect mind Make love the end of knowledge here, How perfect will our love be, where All imperfection is refin'd?
Seite xv - ... that there is a God, that he ought to be worshipped, that virtue and piety are essential...
Seite 8 - Now that the April of your youth adorns The garden of your face, Now that for you each knowing lover mourns, And all seek to your grace — Do not repay affection with scorns.
Seite 63 - Must with it evermore endure. For if where sins and vice reside, We find so foul a guilt remain, As never dying in his stain, Still...

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