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Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Hesperides (1648)
It is an active flame that flies,
First, to the babies of the eyes.
Hesperides (1648)
The warm soft side
Of the resigning, yet resisting bride.
Hesperides (1648)
No, not Jove
Himself, at one time, can be wise and love.
Hesperides (1648)
I have lost, and lately, these
Many dainty mistresses.
Hesperides (1648)
No marigolds yet closèd are,
No shadows great appear.
Hesperides (1648)
'Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.
Hesperides (1648)
If little labour, little are our gaines:
Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
Hesperides (1648)
O thou, the drink of gods and angels! wine.
Hesperides (1648)
Go, happy rose, and interwove
With other flowers, bind my love.
Tell her, too, she must not be
Longer flowing, longer free,
That so oft has fetter'd me.
Hesperides (1648)
Thus times do shift; each thing his turne does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Night makes no difference 'twixt the priest and clerk;
Joan as my lady is as good i' th' dark.
Hesperides (1648)
Then while time serves, and we are but decaying,
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
Hesperides (1648)
When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
Hesperides (1648)
The starres of the night
Will lend thee their light,
Like tapers cleare without number.
Here we are all by day; by night we're hurl'd
By dreams, each one into a sev'ral world.
Hesperides (1648)
To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside;
Who feares to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.
Let's live with that small pittance which we have;
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Some asked me where the rubies grew,
And nothing I did say,
But with my finger pointed to
The lips of Julia.
In the hour of my distress,
When temptations me oppress,
And when I my sins confess,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Hesperides (1648)