Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . et,must be allowed to be soft, sweet, and musical, always a gentleman,and so elegant and refined, that his best verses might be passedoff at even scholarly tables for those of Moore. The man whomBishop Burnet describes as vain although witty, and Clarendonas selfish and a flatterer, was one of the first P^nglish poets whowrote good iwrs dc Socicte. kt^ THE BUD. Lately on yonder swelling bush,l>ig with many a coming rose,This early bud began to di
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . et,must be allowed to be soft, sweet, and musical, always a gentleman,and so elegant and refined, that his best verses might be passedoff at even scholarly tables for those of Moore. The man whomBishop Burnet describes as vain although witty, and Clarendonas selfish and a flatterer, was one of the first P^nglish poets whowrote good iwrs dc Socicte. kt^ THE BUD. Lately on yonder swelling bush,l>ig with many a coming rose,This early bud began to did but half itself disclose ;I plucked it, though no better grown,And now vou see how full tis blown. (<S% Still as 1 did the leaves inspire, With such a purple light they shone As if they had been made of fire. And spreading so, would flame anon. All that was meant by air or sun, To the young flower my breath has done. -^ If our loose breath so much can may the same in forms of purest love, and music Flavia it aspires to move ?When that, which lifeless buds persuacTo wax more soft, her youth invades28.
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