Richard Lovelace Quotes

1618–1657 England

Richard Lovelace (9 December 1618 – 1657) was an English poet and nobleman, born in Woolwich, Kent, today part of southeast London. He was one of the Cavalier poets, and a noted royalist.

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Also known as: Colonel Lovelace, Lovelace, Richard, Richard Lovelace

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Poore verdant foole! and now green Ice, thy Joys
Large and as lasting, as thy Peirch of Grasse,
Bid us lay in 'gainst Winter, Raine, and poize
Their flouds, with an o'erflowing glasse.

Lucasta (1649)

A Black Patch on Lucasta's Face [I], st. 1

Lucasta: Postume Poems (1660)

When Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my Gates;
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the Grates;
When I lye tangled in her haire
And fettered to her eye;
The Gods that wanton in the Aire,
Know no such Liberty.

Lucasta (1649)

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind
To war and arms I fly.
. . . . . .
Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore:—
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honour more.

If to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that when I am gone,
You or I were alone;
Then my Lucasta might I crave
Pity from blustring winde, or swallowing wave.

Lucasta (1649)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Lovelace (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.