my réfeness The only matter. The highly favour'd Joseph bore To him that serv'd for her before; And at her next birth much like thee, There with thee, new welcome saint, SONNET I. OH HIS BEING ARRIVED TO THE AGE OF 23. (1631.) How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, な It shall be still in strictest measure ev'n 70 5 early continuall ro To that same lot, however mean, or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav'n; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. Consequence is Silly To be set on a clock case. FLY envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace; per dulum. And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, So little is our loss, So little is thy gain. For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss With an individual kiss; kiss from which we can по 5 10 longer And joy shall overtake us as a flood; be divides, viceparable. When every thing that is sincerely good And perfectly divine, With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine Of him, t' whose happy-making sight alone, 15 beatific viscous of. When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall climb,1.684. 20 Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time. AT A SOLEMN MUSIC. BLEST pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy, And to our high-rais'd phantasy present should be concent, That undisturbed song of pure content, Aye sung before the sapphire-colour'd throne mord. With saintly shout, and solemn jubilee; With those just spirits that wear victorious palms, Singing everlastingly: That we on Earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; IO 15 music, of Nativity As once we did, till disproportion'd sin til 97, Commerzy Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din Broke the fair music that all creatures made To their great Lord; whose love their motion sway'd Lave-hot In first obedience, and their state of good. To live with him, and sing in endless morn of light. SONG ON MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Hill and dale, doth boast thy blessing; And welcome thee, and wish thee long. 20 25 5 IO 1.5. bf. de Dew. 1441, Le grisar 26, Comine 978. I of one was a TO THE NIGHTINGALE. 29 heard the nightingale before the cuckor, then it for one's love, -good SONNET II. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Foretell my hopeless doom in some grove nigh: L'ALLEGRO. Halu HENCE loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn detested. 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy; Find out some uncouth cell, unknown. 5 ΙΟ Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, it And the night-raven sings; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian3 desert ever dwell. But come thou goddess fair and free, 5 erfections In Heav'n yclep'd Euphrosyne, The Kendly) presides over Whom lovely Venus at a birth the blooming) are The remaining mythical people who 3 the binemeriaus (Odyssey) & on whom the sun never 1.24. Curteys sche was, direct, and debonaire, konne Prestie, 6.51. This Emulge with Lerte debousive. To my totes Lale, 6., 1424. EARLY POEMS, 1624-1637. lively 30 Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, As he met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washt in dew, So buxom, blithe, and debonair, courteous, gentle Jest and youthful Jollity, 20 25 Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, the turns of wit. Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, 30 And in thy right hand lead with thee 35 The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free; that cannot be to 40 proved, To hear the lark begin his flight, While the cock with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, P.1.554. 45 50 Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn |