Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones, come and buy ; If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Fall on me like a silent dew, Cherry Ripe. Or like those maiden showers, To Music, to becalm his Fever.. Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: Has not attained his noon. To Daffadills. A sweet disorder in the dress Delight in Disorder. A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat, A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part. Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. Ibid. Sorrows Succeed. You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.1 Love me little, love me long. 1 Love me little, love me long. - Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act iv. Sc. 5. [Herrick continued. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.1 Seek and Find. JAMES SHIRLEY. 1596-1666. The glories of our blood and state Contention of Ajax and Ulysses. Sc. iii. Only the actions of the just2 Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.8 Ibid. Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. The Last Conqueror. Stanza 1. JOHN KEPLER. 1571-1630. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. From Brewster's Martyrs of Science, p. 197. 1 Nil tam difficile est quin quærendo investigari possit. - Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, iv., 2, 8. 2 The sweet remembrance of the just 8 'their dust.' Works, ed. Dyce, Vol. vi. I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. To Lucasta, on going to the Wars. When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames.2 Fishes, that tipple in the deep, To Althea from Prison. ii. Ibid. Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; And in my soul am free, Enjoy such liberty. Ibid. iv. 1 There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. Sir Thomas Browne, Relig. Med. Part 2. Cf. Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto i. St. 6. 2 A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tyber in 't. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii. Sc. 1. K JOHN WEBSTER. - 1638. 'Tis just like a summer bird-cage in a garden; the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out.1 The White Devil. Acti. Sc. 2. Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Ibid. Acti. Sc. 2. Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd to near have neither heat nor light. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 4. 1 Le mariage est comme une forteresse assiégée; ceux qui sont dehors veulent y entrer, et ceux qui sont dedans veulent en sortir. Un proverbe Arabe. Quitard, Etudes sur les Proverbes Français. p. 102. It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Montaigne, Essays, Ch. v. Vol. iii. Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been Sir John Davis, Contention betwixt a Wife, Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? Emerson, Representative Men: Montaigne RICHARD CRASHAW. Circa 1616-1650. The conscious water saw its God and blushed.1 Translation of Epigram on John ii. Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me. Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend! In Praise of Lessius's Rule of Health. The modest front of this small floor, Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton. 1 Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit. |