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18841False,she said"how can it be, To court another yet love me?
18841How could the painter know so much by me, Or art effect what he hath brought to pass? 18841 Pardon,"he said,"For why?
18841AN ELEGY Ah cruel winds, why call you hence away?
18841Ah Cynthia pale, to whom my griefs I told, Why do you both rejoice both man and beast?
18841Ah flocks, why stand you all aghast?
18841Ah rocks, where are your robes of moss?
18841Ah shall I love your sight, bright shining eyes?
18841Ah sun, why shine thy looks, thy looks like gold, When horsemen brave thou risest in the east?
18841Ambitious sickness, what doth thee so harden?
18841And am I left distressed to live alone, Where none my tears and mournful tale shall mark?
18841And must my soul his life and glory leave?
18841And should I leave thee then, thou pretty elf?
18841And who is the Dark Lady?
18841At thy fair hands who wonders not at all, Wonder itself through ignorance embases?
18841DORIS Should I envy that blind did you that spite?
18841For why?
18841For why?
18841For why?
18841For why?
18841For why?
18841For why?
18841For why?
18841From such sweet arms who would not wish embraces?
18841In such a breast what heart would not be thrall?
18841Must I forsake the bower where solace lives, To trust to tickle fates that still deceive?
18841Or shall pain never- ceasing, Seize oh my heart?
18841Or that your shape doth please so foul a groom?
18841She gave it her, to me the kiss was meant; A she to kiss, what harm if she were bold?
18841So now she lives, and never more shall fade; In earth a goddess, what can be more strange?
18841Stella we know, the star- crossed love of Sidney, and Spenser''s happy Elizabeth, but--"Who is Silvia?
18841Trees, rocks, and flocks, what, are you pensive for my loss?
18841What if they do?
18841What is she That all the swains commend her?"
18841What personalities hide behind these poet''s imaginings?
18841When will you cease?
18841Which if I do, why do I not wax cold?
18841Who is Delia, Diana, Coelia, Cælica, and all the rhyming of musical names?
18841Why make you breach betwixt my soul and me?
18841Why move I still like him that life doth hold, And sense enjoy both of my joy and smart?
18841Why rest I not like one that wants a heart?
18841XII Ah trees, why fall your leaves so fast?
18841XLIII Are those two stars, her eyes, my life''s light gone, By which my soul was freèd from all dark?
18841XVI I part; but how?
18841XXIX Why died I not whenas I last did sleep?
18841Ye traitorous floods, why nil your floats delay Until my latest moans discoursèd be?
18841You are not loved; and that''s the cause I fear; For why?
18841[ Footnote C: Our?]
18841for grief, for thought, for strife; I faint; and why?
18841for why?
18841from joy, from hope, from life; I leave; but whom?
18841love''s pride, wit''s pomp, heart''s bliss; I pine; for what?
18842And if I find such pleasure to complain, What should I do then if I should obtain?
18842Banish''d all grace, no graces with me dwell; Compelled to muse, my muses from me fly; Excluded heaven, what can remain but hell?
18842But beggars, can they nought but cherries eat?
18842But what, shall torture make me wrong her name?
18842But when that other cares thy heart do seize, Alas, what succour gain I then by this, But double grief for thine and mine unease?
18842But who shall honour yours?
18842But yet what comforts shall I hereby gain?
18842For what is he can alter fortune''s sliding?
18842For who can live, perpetually secluded From death to life, that loathes her discontent?
18842For who gets wealth, that puts not from the shore?
18842How can I then leave love?
18842How can my heart so many loves then hold, Which yet by heaps increase from day to day?
18842III What viewed I, dear, when I thine eyes beheld?
18842III_ Of the birth of his love_ Fly low, dear love, thy sun dost thou not see?
18842IX Whilst echo cries,"What shall become of me?"
18842If her defects have purchased her this fame, What should her virtues do, her smiles, her love?
18842If not Arabella, who could this be?
18842If this her worst, how should her best inflame?
18842Love in his glory?
18842No marvel then, though more than heretofore I weep and sigh; how can great wounds be there Where moisture runs not out?
18842O if there''s none but thou can work my woe, Wilt thou be still unkind and kill me so?
18842O since the world knows what the power can do, What were''t for thee to save and love me too?
18842Or art thou grown in league with those fair eyes, That they may help thee to consume our days?
18842Or dost thou spare her for her cruelties, Being merciless like thee that no man weighs?
18842Saw I two suns?
18842Say then, what mind this honest love would break; Since her perfections pure, withouten blot, Makes her beloved of thee, she knoweth not?
18842See what reward he hath that serves th''ungrateful?
18842What can I do but yield?
18842What harm is it to kiss, to laugh, to play?
18842What influence hath bred my hateful woe, That I from thee and them am forced to fall?
18842What needs such art my thoughts then to entrap, When of themselves they fly into your lap?
18842What passions would her milder favours move?
18842What saw I then?
18842What tides me then since these pains which annoy me, In my despair are evermore increasing?
18842When shall her troubled brow charged with disdain Reveal the treasure which her smiles impart?
18842When shall my faith the happiness attain, To break the ice that hath congealed her heart?
18842Whilst echo cries,"What shall become of me?"
18842Whose state best shows the force of murdering eyes?
18842Why should I frame These sad neglected notes for her dear sake?
18842Why should I offer up unto her name, The sweetest sacrifice my youth can make?
18842Why should I strive to make her live for ever, That never deigns to give me joy to live?
18842Why should m''afflicted Muse so much endeavour Such honour unto cruelty to give?
18842XVII Why should I sing in verse?
18842Yet no mild comfort would thy brow reveal, No lightning looks which falling hopes erect; What boots to laws of succour to appeal?
18842what need is of a net To catch a bird that is already ta''en?
18842who half your torments knows?
42621Why, MOSES, did thy treach''rous art Lead us from Egypt''s fertile clime, Amid these pathless wilds To sink, wan Famine''s prey? 42621 And does my friend again demand the strain, Still seek to list the sorrow- soothing lay? 42621 And need I court the goddess when I move The warbling lute to sound the soul of love? 42621 And what, my friend, is life? 42621 Does he not after fairy shadows run? 42621 Does man exist to bless himself alone? 42621 Follows he not some wild illusive dream, Like children who would catch the radiant sun, Grasp at its image in the glittering stream? 42621 Forgot the fatal hour when thousands fell; And Heaven''s avenging arm Hurl''d down the shafts of death? 42621 Forgot the heavenly food That fell like evening dew, For Israel''s chosen race? 42621 Have only zephyrs fill''d my swelling sails, As smooth the gentle vessel glides along? 42621 Have we no duties of a social kind? 42621 Have ye forgot the fires That led your nightly march? 42621 Have ye forgot the hour When murmuring Anger buzz''d Along the busy tents? 42621 Have ye forgot the hour When, bold in secrecy, Sedition''s impious feet Stole on from tent to tent? 42621 How bounds the soul at freedom''s sacred call? 42621 How can this wretch prefer the prayer to heaven? 42621 How heav''d thine artful breast the deep- drawn sigh? 42621 How shrinks from slavery''s heart- appalling train? 42621 How spoke thy looks? 42621 How then shall age its wonted succour find; The blind a leader, and the poor a friend? 42621 How, self- condemn''d, expect to be forgiven? 42621 Is SITTIM''s field forgot? 42621 Is it this? 42621 Is self- regard creation''s noblest end? 42621 Mark''st thou the reed that on its surface floats? 42621 Mark''st thou yon streamlet in its onward course? 42621 O, cold of heart, shall pride assail thy shade, Whom all Romance could fancy nature made? 42621 On yon wild waste of ruin thron''d, what form Beats her swoln breast, and tears her unkempt hair? 42621 Or chills pale terror now his death- like face? 42621 Or sunk he, when the noiseless night was near, As calmly on his couch of down to sleep? 42621 Or will thy hope expect the coming day, When bright the sun may shine with unremitted ray? 42621 Rose he, like you, at morn devoid of fear, His anxious vigils o''er his gold to keep? 42621 Say, faulters now your chieftain''s breath? 42621 Say, what is virtue, sages? 42621 Shall partial friendship turn the favouring eye, No fault behold, but every charm descry; And shall the thankless bard his honour''d strain deny? 42621 Soothe sad reality With visionary bliss? 42621 Still would he hear the woe- worn heart complain, When melancholy loads the lingering day? 42621 To quit the public weal, and guard our own: Is life''s sole object individual bliss? 42621 What boots thy wealth above the world''s controul, If riches doom their churlish lord a slave? 42621 What wildly- beauteous form, High on the summit of yon bicrown''d hill, Lovely in horror, takes her dauntless stand? 42621 When frighted ocean stopt his waves, And rushing seas stood still? 42621 Where, where such virtues can we see, Or where such valour, SIDNEY, but in thee? 42621 Why bid mine eyes two stars of beauty move? 42621 Why bursts the big tear from my guilty eye? 42621 Why form the melting soul too apt for love? 42621 Why glare her full- fix''d eyes in stern despair? 42621 Why heap with charms to load me with disgrace? 42621 Why heaves my love- lorn breast the impious sigh? 42621 Why seems the spectre thus to court the storm? 42621 Why wilt thou, Memory, still recall to view Each long- past joy, each long- lost friend anew? 42621 Why, nature, didst thou give this fatal face? 42621 _ TO HAPPINESS._ Say, lovely fugitive, where dost thou dwell? 42621 _ TO REFLECTION._ Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye Revert again to many a sorrow past? 42621 have your thankless hearts Forgot the bounteous gifts of Heaven? 42621 how glow''d thine ardent eye? 42621 name that friend to thee? 42621 said he,''here late did GRATIO dwell, Hast thou not heard of good old GRATIO''s fame? 42621 soft Pity''s child, Where shall we seek thee now? 42621 tell my wish to thee? 42621 tell my wish to thee? 42621 tell my wish to thee? 42621 tell my wish to thee? 42621 thus curst with poverty of soul, What boot to thee the blessings fortune gave? 42621 wherefore sleeps thy lay? 15448 How falls it out so strangely?"
15448Ah cruel fates, why do you then besot Poor Corin''s soul with love, when love is fled?
15448And sith no other sun, why should I fear?
15448Are women woe to men, traps for their falls?
15448Be husbands fearful of the chastest wives?
15448Besides, since from one root we both did spring, Why should not I thy fame and beauty sing?
15448But what hear I?
15448But what of pity do I speak to thee, Whose breast is proof against complaint or prayer?
15448But what of this?
15448But what, is mine so great?
15448But why, O why, do I so far digress?
15448But, for the other greedily doth eye it, I pray you tell me, what do I get by it?
15448Can beauty both at once give life and kill?
15448Did nature frame thy beauty so unkind?
15448Differ their words, their deeds, their looks, their lives?
15448Doth fancy purchase praise, and virtue shame?
15448Doth kindness grow unkind?
15448Hath she nor ears to hear nor eyes to see?
15448Hath truth unto herself procurèd blame?
15448Have lovers ever been their tennis balls?
15448How can I hide that is already known?
15448How then?
15448I that thus take or they that thus refuse, Whether are these deceivèd then, or I?
15448II My heart was slain, and none but you and I; Who should I think the murder should commit?
15448IV Did you sometimes three German brethren see, Rancour''twixt two of them so raging rife, That th''one could stick the other with his knife?
15448If that the sentence so unhappy be, Then what am I that gave the same to me?
15448Is it to have the weeds of sorrow grow So long and thick, that they will ne''er be spent?
15448Is nature grown less powerful in their heirs, Or in our fathers did she more transgress?
15448Is she a stock, a block, a stone, a flint?
15448Is there none to aid me?
15448LII What dost thou mean to cheat me of my heart, To take all mine and give me none again?
15448LVI Is trust betrayed?
15448May show of goodness lurk in treachery?
15448Must sacred muses suffer misery?
15448Or dost thou scorn to pity my despair?
15448Or doth my Chloris stand in doubt that I With syren songs do seek her to beguile?
15448Or from what planet had I derivation That thus my life in seas of woe is crossed?
15448Or hath it lost the virtue with the times, Or in this island alt''reth with the fashions?
15448Or have our passions lesser power than theirs, Who had less art them lively to express?
15448Or have thine eyes such magic or that art That what they get they ever do retain?
15448Or will you love me, and yet hate me too?
15448Pity or let him die that daily dieth; Dieth he not oft who often sings this ditty?
15448Shall Phoebus hinder little stars to shine, Or lofty cedar mushrooms leave to grow?
15448Shall fortune alter the most constant mind?
15448She was an heiress, he a penniless poet, and what was to be done?
15448TO HUMOUR XIX You can not love, my pretty heart, and why?
15448TO THE CRITICS XXXI Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer, And tax my Muse with this fantastic grace; Turning my papers asks,"What have we here?"
15448Then as in time they come, so must they go; Death common is to beggars and to kings For whither do I run beside my text?
15448Think''st thou, my wit shall keep the packhorse way, That every dudgeon low invention goes?
15448This new- coined love, love doth reprove?
15448VII What need I mourn, seeing Pan our sacred king Was of that nymph fair Syrinx coy disdained?
15448What next, what other shift?
15448What should I say?
15448What talk I of a heart when thou hast none?
15448What will you do?
15448What, will you hate?
15448What, will you keep a mean then betwixt either?
15448Whose fortune then was it to win all three?
15448Will reason yield unto rebelling will?
15448X Am I a Gorgon that she doth me fly, Or was I hatchèd in the river Nile?
15448XI Tell me, my dear, what moves thy ruthless mind To be so cruel, seeing thou art so fair?
15448XI Winged with sad woes, why doth fair zephyr blow Upon my face, the map of discontent?
15448XLIII Tell me of love, sweet Love, who is thy sire, Or if thou mortal or immortal be?
15448XXV O, why should nature niggardly restrain That foreign nations relish not our tongue?
15448XXV Who doth not know that love is triumphant, Sitting upon the throne of majesty?
15448XXVII Is not love here as''tis in other climes, And differeth it as do the several nations?
15448XXVIII What cruel star or fate had domination When I was born, that thus my love is crossed?
15448XXXVII Dear, why should you command me to my rest, When now the night doth summon all to sleep?
15448Yet my confused affects no speech affords, For why?
15448and"I!"?
15448can he love?
15448what yet remains to do?
1041And for that riches where is my deserving?
1041And fortify your self in your decay With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?
1041And what is''t but mine own when I praise thee?
1041And wherefore say not I that I am old?
1041Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
1041But what''s so blessed- fair that fears no blot?
1041C Where art thou Muse that thou forget''st so long, To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
1041CI O truant Muse what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth in beauty dy''d?
1041CLI Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
1041CVIII What''s in the brain, that ink may character, Which hath not figur''d to thee my true spirit?
1041CXIV Or whether doth my mind, being crown''d with you, Drink up the monarch''s plague, this flattery?
1041CXXXVII Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, That they behold, and see not what they see?
1041Do I not think on thee, when I forgot Am of my self, all tyrant, for thy sake?
1041Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
1041For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
1041For where is she so fair whose unear''d womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
1041IV Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty''s legacy?
1041IX Is it for fear to wet a widow''s eye, That thou consum''st thy self in single life?
1041If it be not, then love doth well denote Love''s eye is not so true as all men''s: no, How can it?
1041If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote, What means the world to say it is not so?
1041Is this thy body''s end?
1041Is''t not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet''st friend must be?
1041LI Thus can my love excuse the slow offence Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed: From where thou art why should I haste me thence?
1041LIII What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
1041LVII Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
1041LXI Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
1041LXXVI Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from variation or quick change?
1041LXXXIV Who is it that says most, which can say more, Than this rich praise,--that you alone, are you?
1041Love is a babe, then might I not say so, To give full growth to that which still doth grow?
1041Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not, To put fair truth upon so foul a face?
1041Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
1041Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
1041Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
1041Or who is he so fond will be the tomb, Of his self- love to stop posterity?
1041Profitless usurer, why dost thou use So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
1041Shall will in others seem right gracious, And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
1041Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge?
1041Spend''st thou thy fury on some worthless song, Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
1041Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov''st thou that which thou receiv''st not gladly, Or else receiv''st with pleasure thine annoy?
1041To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
1041VIII Music to hear, why hear''st thou music sadly?
1041Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write, Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
1041Were it not sinful then, striving to mend, To mar the subject that before was well?
1041What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?
1041What''s new to speak, what now to register, That may express my love, or thy dear merit?
1041Who taught thee how to make me love thee more, The more I hear and see just cause of hate?
1041Why should false painting imitate his cheek, And steel dead seeming of his living hue?
1041Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is, Beggar''d of blood to blush through lively veins?
1041Why should my heart think that a several plot, Which my heart knows the wide world''s common place?
1041Why should poor beauty indirectly seek Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
1041Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
1041Why with the time do I not glance aside To new- found methods, and to compounds strange?
1041Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
1041XCIX The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love''s breath?
1041XL Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
1041XVI But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
1041XVII Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill''d with your most high deserts?
1041XVIII Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?
1041XXVIII How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarre''d the benefit of rest?
1041change thy thought, that I may change my mind: Shall hate be fairer lodg''d than gentle love?
1041from what power hast thou this powerful might, With insufficiency my heart to sway?
1041how can Love''s eye be true, That is so vexed with watching and with tears?
1041how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me?
1041say I love thee not, When I against myself with thee partake?
1041what excuse will my poor beast then find, When swift extremity can seem but slow?
1041where, alack, Shall Time''s best jewel from Time''s chest lie hid?