Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going To Bed Flashcards
“Off with that girdle, ….
like heaven’s zone glittering”
“But a far….
fairer world encompassing”
“Unpin that spangled….
breast-plate which you wear”
“Until I labour, ….
I in labour lie”
“That th’ eyes l of….
busy fools may be stopp’d there”
“Unlace….
yourself”
“Your gown going off….
such beauteous state reveals”
“As when flowery meads….
th’ hill’s shadow steals”
“In love’s hallow’d….
temple, this soft bed”
“….and show // The hairy….
diadems which on you do grow”
“brings’t with thee, ….
//A heaven-like Mahomet’s paradise”
“Licence my….
roving hands”
“I, my America….
my Newfoundland”
“My kingdom, safest when….
with one man mann’d”
“My mine of….
precious stones”
“How am I….
blest in this discovering thee!”
“As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed….
must be // To taste whole joys”
“Gems which you women use….
//Are like Atlanta’s ball”
“….when a fool’s eye lighteth….
on a gem, // His earthly soul might court that”
“As liberally as to….
thy midwife show”
“There is no penance….
due to innocence”
“To teach thee, ….
I am naked first”
“What needst thou….
have more covering than a man?”
