Amorea, The Lost Lover Or The Idea of Love and Misfortune. Being Poems, Sonets, Songs, Odes, Pastoral, Elegies, Lyrick Poems, and Epigrams. Never before printed. Written by Pathericke Jenkin |
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On the perfection of Beauty.
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On the perfection of Beauty.
Gaze not on starr's whose twinckling light
The spangled glory of the night:
Nor on the Suns refulgent eye
Darting Silver from the sky:
Look not on Spotless Ermines tho'
For whitness they excell the Snow,
Nor pretty Turtle-Doves who be.
The emblimes of lov'd amity:
Think not on Muses, graces, now,
Nor the Seven wonders we allow,
Nor would I have you think upon
The Poet-nursing Hellicon
Wonder not why, Pearls vallued are,
Or Rubies why acconnted rare,
or Diamonds who sparkleforth
At once their luster and their worth:
For If Clariana come in sight,
Stars do fall and lose their light,
The Sun Eclips'd doth post away,
And sets an end unto the day.
Ermines run into disgrace,
Baffled when they see her face.
Turtles dying leave the Grove
To see themselves out-gone in love:
The Muses, Graces, Wonders seven,
Are vext that now they are made even.
Mount Hellicon her self doth fear
All Poesie doth flow from her:
Pearles are mad that now they must
Be look't upon as glittering dust.
Rubies asham'd, away did skip,
And vow'd a vengeance on her lip;
Diamonds for grief have sworn,
That they'le never more be worn.
The spangled glory of the night:
Nor on the Suns refulgent eye
Darting Silver from the sky:
Look not on Spotless Ermines tho'
For whitness they excell the Snow,
Nor pretty Turtle-Doves who be.
The emblimes of lov'd amity:
Think not on Muses, graces, now,
Nor the Seven wonders we allow,
Nor would I have you think upon
The Poet-nursing Hellicon
Wonder not why, Pearls vallued are,
Or Rubies why acconnted rare,
or Diamonds who sparkleforth
At once their luster and their worth:
For If Clariana come in sight,
Stars do fall and lose their light,
The Sun Eclips'd doth post away,
And sets an end unto the day.
Ermines run into disgrace,
Baffled when they see her face.
Turtles dying leave the Grove
To see themselves out-gone in love:
The Muses, Graces, Wonders seven,
Are vext that now they are made even.
Mount Hellicon her self doth fear
All Poesie doth flow from her:
Pearles are mad that now they must
Be look't upon as glittering dust.
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And vow'd a vengeance on her lip;
Diamonds for grief have sworn,
That they'le never more be worn.
Thus starrs are falen, the Sun is fled,
Ermines baffled, Turtles dead,
The Muses, Graces, Hellicon,
The Wonders, vex, fear, as undone,
Pearls, Rubies, Diamonds, are mad, shame, sware,
And all because Glariana is so fair.
Ermines baffled, Turtles dead,
The Muses, Graces, Hellicon,
The Wonders, vex, fear, as undone,
Pearls, Rubies, Diamonds, are mad, shame, sware,
And all because Glariana is so fair.
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