a Wanting the spring that those shrunk pipes had fed, Show'd life imprison'd in a body dead. Poems. 84 These gray locks, the pursuivants of death, Nestor-like aged, in an age of care; These eyes,-like lamps, whose wasting oil is spent, Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent: Weak shoulders overborne with burd’ning grief; And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground :Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb, Unable to support this lump of clay,Swift-winged with desire to get a grave. 21-ii. 5. 85 With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath : the ruddock* would, With charitable bill (O bill, sore-shaming Those rich-left heirs, that let their fathers lie Without a monument !) bring thee all this ; Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-groundt thy corse. 31-iv. 2. 86 Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages : Fear no more the frown o' the great, * The red-breast. † Probably a corrupt reading for wither round thy corse. The sceptre, learning, physic, must Fear no more the light'ning flash, 87 I will rob Tellust of her weeds, 31-iv. 2. To strew thy green with flowers; the yellows, blues, Shall, as a chaplet, hang upon thy grave, 88 How use doth breed a habit in a man! 33-iv. 1. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, 89 2-v. 4. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, * Judgment. Earth. A vegetable gathered for pickling. † Seal the same contract. & Daws. Her cock-boat. Cannot be heard so high: I'll look no more; 90 The dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetlest o'er his base into the sea, The very place puts toys‡ of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain, That looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath. 91 34-iv. 6. 36-i. 4. From the dread summit of this chalky bourn :§ 92 34-iv. 6. These things seem small and undistinguishable, 93 7-iv. 1. Hath not old custom made this life more sweet And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 94 10-ii. 1. Pacing through the forest, Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, † Hangs. * Tumble. Whims. And, mark, what object did present itself! 10-iv. 3. 95 Natural graces, that extinguish art. 21-v. 3. 96 35-i. 5. 97 Her stature, as wand-like straight; As silver-voiced: her eyes as jewel-like, And cased as richly: in pace another Juno; Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry, The more she gives them speech. 33-v. 1. 98 Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under, Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss ; * An Ethiopian, a lack. Without the bed her other fair hand was, 99 Poems. Fair ladies, mask'd, are roses in their bud: Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown. 100 Her sunny locks 8-v. 2. Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. 101 That whiter skin of hers than snow, 9-i. 1. And smooth as monumental alabaster. 37-v. 2. 102 You seem to me as Dian in her orb; 6-iv. 1. 103 She looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. 12-ii. 1. 104 Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, And as good lost, is seld or never found, Poems. |