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First Exam (pt 2) Flashcards

1
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I never rested on the muses bed
nor dipt my quill in the thessalian fauntaine
my rustick muse was rudely fostered
and flies too low to reach the double mountain

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Mary Oxlie

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then do not sparkes with your bright suns compare
perfection in a womans worke is rare
from an untroublesd mind should verses flow
my discontents makes mine to muddy show
and hoarse encumbrances of houshold care
where these remaine the muses ne’re repaire

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Mary Oxlie

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if thou dost extoll her haire
or her ivory forehead faire
or those stars whose bright reflection
thralls my heart in sweet subjection

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Mary Oxlie

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or when to display thou seekes
to snow mixt roses on her cheekes
or those rubies soft and sweet
over those pretty rows that meet

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Mary Oxlie

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the chain painter as asham’d
hides his picture so far fam’d
and the queen he carv’d it by
with a blush on her face doth dye

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Mary Oxlie

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since those lines do limne a creature
that so far surpast her feature
when thou shows’t how fairest flora
prankt with pride the banks of ora

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Mary Oxlie

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so thy verse her streames doth honor
strangers grow enamour
d on her
all the wans that swim in po
would their native brooks frogo

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Mary Oxlie

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and as loathing phoebus beames
long to turn bath in cooler streames
tree-turn’d daphne would be seen
in her groves to flourish green

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Mary Oxlie

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9
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and her boughs would gladly spare
to frame a garland for thy haire
that fairest nymphs with finest fingers
may thee crown the best of singers

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Mary Oxlie

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10
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but when the muse dissolv’d in show;rs
wailes that peerlesse prince of ours
cropt by too untimely fate
her morning doth exasperate

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Mary Oxlie

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senselesse thingsgs to see thee moane
stones do weep and trees do groane
birds in aire fishes in flood
beasts in field forsake their food

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Mary Oxlie

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the nymphs forgoing all their bow’rs
teare their chaplets deckt with flow’rs
sol himselfe with misty vapor
hides from earth his glorious tapor
and as mov’d to heare the plaine shwews his griefe in show’rs of rain

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Mary Oxlie

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lucy you brightnesse of our spheare who are
life of the muses day their morning-starre

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Ben Johnson

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14
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if workes (not th’authors) their owne grace should looke
whose poemns would not wish to be your book

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Ben Johnson

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15
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but these desir’d by you the makers end
crowne with their own rare poems aske rare friends

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Ben Johnson

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16
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yet satyres since the most of mankind bee
their un-avoided subject fewest see

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Ben Johnson

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for none ere tooke that pleasure in sinnes sense
but when thye heard it tax’d took more offence

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Ben Johnson

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18
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thye then that living where the matter is bred
dare for these poems yet both aske and read

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Ben Johnson

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and like themj too must needfully though few
be of the best and ‘mongst those best are you

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Ben Johnson

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20
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lucy you bringhtness of our speare who are
the muses evening as their morning starre

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Ben Johnson

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21
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Darest thou my muse present thy battlike winge
before the eyes of brittanes mighty kinge
hee that all other states exceedes as farre
as doth the sunne a little glimmering starre

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Lady Anne Southwell

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22
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to whose blest birth the cherubins did tender
all the endowments for a princely splendor
you lines excuse my boldness in this matter
and tell the truth my harts too big to flatter

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Lady Anne Southwell

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23
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yf in the search of this world i could find
one to exceed the vertues of thy minde
the height of my ambition would aspire
to offer up these sparckles to that fire

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Lady Anne Southwell

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24
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since all fall shorte of thy souldes qualitie
more short then of thy states abilitie
tis thy attractive goodness gives mee scope
to come (dread soveraigne) on the armes of hope

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Lady Anne Southwell

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25
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and offer up this tribute to thy merrit
this sacrifice to thy devinest spiritt
i know in god there doth noe ill abiede
nor in his true epitome noe pride

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Lady Anne Southwell

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26
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thou art the nursing father of all pietye
the mightye champion for the deitye
this of the high jehovah i doe singe
to whome doth this belonge but to the kinge
great god of heaven thankes for thy gracious favours
great king on earth accept the poor endeavours

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Lady Anne Southwell

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27
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come my lucasia since we see
that miracles mens faith do move
by wonder and by prodigy
to the dull angry world lets prove
theres a religion in our love

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Katherine Phillips

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28
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for though we were designd t’agree
that fate no liberty destroyes
but our election is as free
as angels who with greedy choice
are yet determin’d to their joyes

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Katherine Phillips

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29
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our hearts are doubled by the loss
here mixture is addition grown
we both diffuse and both ingross
and we whose minds are so much one
never yet ever are alone

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Katherine Phillips

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30
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we court our own captivity
than thrones more great an innocent
twere banishment to be set free
since we wear fetters whose intent
not bondage is but ornament

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Katherine Phillips

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31
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divided joyes are tedious found
and griefs united easier grow
we are our selves bu by rebound
and all our titles shuffled so
both princes and both subjects too

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Katherine Phillips

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32
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our hearts are mutual victims laid
while they (such power in friendship lies)
are altars priests and offrings made
and each heart which thus kindly dies
grows deathless by the sacrifice

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Katherine Phillips

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33
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I did not live until this time
crownd my felicity
when i could say without a crime
i am not thine but thee

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Katherine Phillips

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34
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this carcass breath’d and walkt and slept
so that the world believd
there was a soul the motions kept
but they were all deceivd

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Katherine Phillips

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35
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for as a watch by art is wound
to motion such was mine
but never had orinda found
a soul till she found thine

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Katherine Phillips

36
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which now inspires cures and supplies
and guides my darkned breast
for thou art all that i can prize
my joy my life my rest

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Katherine Phillips

37
Q

no bridegrooms nor crown-conquerors mirth
to mine compard can be
they have but pieces of this earth
ive all the world in thee

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Katherine Phillips

38
Q

then let our flames still light and shine
and no false fear controul
as innocent as our design
immortal as our soul

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Katherine Phillips

39
Q

Though i seeme struange sweete freende be thou not so
do not annoy thy selfe with sullen will
myne harte hathe voude although my tongue saye noe
to be thyne owne in freendly liking styll

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Anne Field

40
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thou seeste me live amongest the lynxes eyes
that pryes into each privy thought of mynde
thou knowest ryght well what sorrows may aryse
ife once they chaunce my setled lookes to fynde

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Anne Field

41
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content thy selfe that once i made an othe
to sheylde my selfe in shrowde of honest shame
and when thou lyst make tryall of my trouth
so that thou save the honor of my name

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Anne Field

42
Q

and let me seme although i be not coy
to cloak my sadd conceyts with smylinge cheere
let not my jestures showe wehrin to joye
nor by my lookes let not my love appeare

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Anne Field

43
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we seely dames that falles suspecte do feare
and live ithin the moughte of envyes lake
must in our hearts a secrete meaning bear
far from the rest which outwardly we maek

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Anne Field

44
Q

go where i like i like not want my love
where i desire there most i fayne debate
one hath my hand an other hathe my glove
but he my harte whom i seeme most to hate

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Anne Field

45
Q

then farewell friend i will continue strange
thou shalt not hear by word or writing oughte
let it suffice my vowe shall never change
as for the rest i leave yt to thy thought

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Anne Field

46
Q

If i had as fair a face as john williams
his daughter elzabeth has
then i would i were a taudrie lace as goodman
bolts daughter marie does

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Anne Wrigglesworth

47
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and if i had as much money in my purse
as cadmans daughter margaret has
then would i have a bastard less
than butlers maid helen has

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Anne Wrigglesworth

48
Q

Tis not your faire outside (though famous greece
whose beauties ruin’d kingdomes never saw
a face that could like yours affections draw)

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Elizabeth Cary

49
Q

fits you for the protection of this piece
it is your heart (your pious zealous heart)
that by attractive force brings great perroone

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Elizabeth Cary

50
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to leave his seyne his loyre and his garroone
and to your handmaid thames his gifts impart
but stay you have a brother his king borne

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Elizabeth Cary

51
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(whose worth draws men from the remotest parts
to offer up themselves to his desartes)
to whom he hath his allegiance sworne

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Elizabeth Cary

52
Q

yet for your sake he proves ubiquitarie
and comes to england though in france he tarry

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Elizabeth Cary

53
Q

Who so list to hount i knowe where is an hynde
but as for me helas i may no more
the vayne travaill hath werried me so sore
i am of theim that farthest cometh behinde
yet may i by no means of my werried myne
drawe from the deere but as she fleeth afore
faynting I folowe i leve of therefor
sethens in a nett i seke to hold the wynde

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Sir Thomas Wyatt

54
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who list her hount i put him out of doubt
as well as i may spend his time in vain
and graven with diamondes in letters plain

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Sir Thomas Wyatt

55
Q

there is written her fairer neck rounde about
noli me tangere for cesars i am
and wyld for to hold though i seme tame

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Sir Thomas Wyatt

56
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Come live with me and be my love
and we will all the pleasures prove
that valleyes groves hills and fields
woods or steepie mountain yeelds

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Christopher Marlowe

57
Q

and we will sit upon the rocks
seeing the shepheards feed their flocks
by shallow rivers to whose falls
melodious byrds sing madrigalls

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Christopher Marlowe

58
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and i will make thee beds of roses
and a thousand fragrant poesises
a cap of flowers and a kirtle
embroidered all with leaves of mirtle

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Christopher Marlowe

59
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a gown made of the finest wool
which from our pretty lambs we pull
fair lined slippers for the cold
with buckles of the purest gold

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Christopher Marlowe

60
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a belt of straw and ivie buds
with coral clasps and amber studs
and if these pleasures may thee move
come live with me and be my love

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Christopher Marlowe

61
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the shepheards swains shall dance and sing
for thy delight each may morning
if these delights thy mind may move
then live with me and be my love

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Christopher Marlowe

62
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Forbear bold youth alls heaven here
and what you do aver
to others coutship may appear
tis sacriledge to her

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Katherine Philips

63
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She is a public deity
and were’t not very odd
she should depose her self to be
a petty household god

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Katherine Philips

64
Q

first make the sun in private shine
and bid the world adieu
that so he may his beams confine
in compliment to you

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Katherine Philips

65
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but if of that you do despair
think how you did amiss
to strive to fix her beams which are
more bright and large than his

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Katherine Philips

66
Q

Would god that death with cruel dart
and fatal sesters three
before had perste my virgins harte
or i did fancye thee

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Ellin Thorne

67
Q

Cupido then his force had bent
and golden bowe in vaine
my womans harte had not been rent
with this most rewfull paine

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Ellin Thorne

68
Q

his denting darte no sooner flew
from sounding silver stringe
but pinchinge paines eke dolores newe
within my brest did springe

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Ellin Thorne

69
Q

o luckless happ unhappy luck
some lionse me feed
some savage tiger gave me suck
un thankfulness me brede

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Ellin Thorne

70
Q

els i not once had fended thee
whos shynning comely graice
constraines me nowe to rune i see
a captives ruefull rayce

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Ellin Thorne

71
Q

o splie me not but spedely
thie mercy here extende
and i will serve thee faithfully
unto my latter end

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Ellin Thorne

72
Q

As loving hind that (hartless) wants her deer
scuds throught he woods and fern with harkning ear
perplext in every bush and nook doth pry
her dearest deer might answer ear or eye

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Anne Bradstreet

73
Q

so doth my anxious soul which now doth miss
a dearer Dear (far dearer heart) than this
still waiting with doubts and hopes and failing eye
his voice to hear or person to discry

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Anne Bradstreet

74
Q

or as the pensive dove doth all alone
(on withered bough) most uncouthly bemoan
the absence of her love and loving mate
whose loss hath made her so unfortunate

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Anne Bradstreet

75
Q

ev’n thus doe i with many a deep sad groan
bewail my turtle true who now is gone
his presence and his safe return still wooes
with thousand doelfull sighs and mournfull cooes

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Anne Bradstreet

76
Q

or as the loving mullet that true fish
her fellow lost nor joy nor life do wish
but lanches on that shore there for to dye
where she her captive husband doth espy

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Anne Bradstreet

77
Q

mine being gone i lead a joyless life
i have a loving phere, yet seem no wife
but worst of all to him can’t steer my course
i here he there alas both kept by force

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Anne Bradstreet

78
Q

return my dear my joy my only love
unto thy hinde thy mullet and thy dove
who neither joyes in pature house nor streams
the substance gone o me these are but dreams

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Anne Bradstreet

79
Q

together at one tree oh let us browse
and like to turltes roost within one house
and like the mulletts in one river glide
lets still remain but one till death divide

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Anne Bradstreet

80
Q

Happy who near you sigh for you alone
who hears you speak or whom you smile upon
you well for this might scorn a starry throne

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A Lady of Quality

81
Q

to this compard the heavnly bliss they prove
no envy raises for the powers a love
ne’er tasted joys compar’d to such above

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A Lady of Quality

82
Q

when ere I look on you through every vein
subtil as lighting flies the nimble flame
i’m all o’er rapture while all over pain

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A Lady of Quality

83
Q

and while my soul does in these transports stray
my voice deisdains to teach my tongue its way
each faculty does not its trust betray

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A Lady of Quality

84
Q

a cloud of wild confusion veils my sight
sounds vainly strike my ears my eyes the light
sof languishment my senses disunite

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A Lady of Quality

85
Q

swift trembling straightn o’er all my body flies
life frightened thense love dos his place supply
disorder’d breathless pale and cold i die

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A Lady of Quality

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