But, sure, he's proud; and yet his pride becomes | Still questioned me the story of my life, him: He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall ; I ran it through, even from my boyish days, Than that mixed in his cheek; 't was just the Of being taken by the insolent foe, difference Betwixt the constant red, and mingled damask. There be some women, Silvius, had they marked him In parcels, as I did, would have gone near He said mine eyes were black, and my hair black; And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace; I will a round unvarnished tale deliver Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magic, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, | And portance in my travel's history: Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, such was the process ; But still the house affairs would draw her thence; ing strange; But love is such a mystery, I cannot find it out; For when I think I'm best resolved I then am most in doubt. Then farewell care, and farewell woe; For I'll believe I have her heart SIR JOHN SUCKLING. IF DOUGHTY DEEDS MY LADY PLEASE. Thy picture at my heart, And he that bends not to thine eye Then tell me how to woo thee, Love; If gay attire delight thine eye, That voice that nane can match. But if fond love thy heart can gain, Nae maiden lays her skaith to me; Then tell me how to woo thee, Love; O, tell me how to woo thee! GRAHAM OF GARTMORE TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON. WHEN Love with unconfinèd wings When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crowned, Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty. When, linnet-like confined, With shriller throat shall sing When I shall voice aloud how good The enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; COLONEL RICHARD LOVELACE. RIVALRY IN LOVE. Of all the torments, all the cares, Sure rivals are the worst! Afflictions easier grow ; Companions of our woe. Sylvia, for all the pangs you see WILLIAM WALSH. TO A VERY YOUNG LADY. Aн, Chloris! that I now could sit When I the dawn used to admire, And praised the coming day, I little thought the growing fire Your charms in harmless childhood lay, But as your charms insensibly My passion with your beauty grew, Still as his mother favored you, Each gloried in their wanton part : To make a Beauty, she. Though now I slowly bend to love If your fair self my chains approve, Lovers, like dying men, may well SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. THE FLOWER'S NAME. HERE's the garden she walked across, Hinders the hinges, and makes them wince. She must have reached this shrub ere she turned, As back with that murmur the wicket swung For she laid the poor snail my chance foot spurned, To feed and forget it the leaves among. Down this side of the gravel-walk She went while her robe's edge brushed the box: And here she paused in her gracious talk To point me a moth on the milk-white phlox. Roses, ranged in valiant row, I will never think that she passed you by ! She loves you, noble roses, I know; But yonder see where the rock-plants lie! What a name! was it love or praise? Speech half asleep, or song half awake? I must learn Spanish one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake. Roses, if I live and do well, I may bring her one of these days, To fix you fast with as fine a spell, Fit you each with his Spanish phrase. But do not detain me now, for she lingers There, like sunshine over the ground; And ever I see her soft white fingers Searching after the bud she found. Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasure or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are, And love were like the tune, With double sound and single Delight our lips would mingle, With kisses glad as birds are That get sweet rain at noon ; If I were what the words are, And love were like the tune. If you were life, my darling, And I, your love, were death, We'd shine and snow together Ere March made sweet the weather With daffodil and starling And hours of fruitful breath; If you were life, my darling, And I, your love, were death. If you were thrall to sorrow, And I were page to joy, And laughs of maid and boy; If you were April's lady, And I were lord in May, We'd throw with leaves for hours, And draw for days with flowers, Till day like night were shady, And night were bright like day; If you were April's lady, And I were lord in May. If you were queen of pleasure, ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. A MATCH. IF love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, THE FLOWER O' DUMBLANE. THE sun has gane down o'er the lofty Ben Lomond, And left the red clouds to preside o'er the scene, While lanely I stray in the calm summer gloamin', To muse on sweet Jessie, the Flower o' Dum blane. O MARY, at thy window be ! It is the wished, the trysted hour! Those smiles and glances let me see That make the miser's treasure poor : How blithely wad I bide the stoure, A weary slave frae sun to sun, Could I the rich reward secure, The lovely Mary Morison. Yestreen when to the trembling string The dance gaed through the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw : O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace ROBERT BURNS. |