Complete Works: With Life, Compendium and Concordance, Bind 1

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Gebbie publishing Company, limited, 1896
 

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Side xvii - Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state,— Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth,—sings hymns at heaven's gate, For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Side lxi - So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins ; who's in, who's out, And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies?
Side ix - although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proVd, I never writ, nor no man ever
Side xlix - sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." And Jessica only deepens into tenderness when she breathes into the ear of Lorenzo,—
Side xiii - A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death, The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Side 170 - tis not hereafter: Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me. sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. Sir And. A mellifluous voice, aa I am true knight. Sir To. A contagious breath. Sir
Side 244 - Thau a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Claud. Let me know the point. Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness ? If I must die
Side 245 - The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling!—'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we
Side 179 - Vio. A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument,
Side 255 - Room in MARIANA'S House. MARIANA discovered sitting ; a Boy singing. SONG. Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, Bring again; Seals of love, but

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