Clarastella Together with Poems occasional, Elegies, Epigrams, Satyrs. By Robert Heath |
On a dust got in Clarastella's eie.
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On a dust got in Clarastella's eie.
Can I with patience this my rival see
Courting those flames so long ador'd by mee?
Forcing her shut her eies from me, and thaw
A tear, which all my sighes ne'r thence could draw?
Canst thou small crum of earth eclips my Sun,
And make it set in clouds e'r day be done?
Could ought but Atomes to this Orb aspire?
Durst ought but dust approach so great a fire?
Hence thou unluckie beam, but more unkind,
That mak'st at once me and my Stella blind!
Courting those flames so long ador'd by mee?
Forcing her shut her eies from me, and thaw
A tear, which all my sighes ne'r thence could draw?
Canst thou small crum of earth eclips my Sun,
And make it set in clouds e'r day be done?
Could ought but Atomes to this Orb aspire?
Durst ought but dust approach so great a fire?
Hence thou unluckie beam, but more unkind,
That mak'st at once me and my Stella blind!
What have I said? my pious rage hath burn'd
Too hot, and hath on the wrong object turn'd:
Forgive me little moat; I know thou'rt free;
How hath my angry zeale accused thee?
'Las thou wast thither onely sent by me,
My guiltless loves unhappy Mercurie.
Too hot, and hath on the wrong object turn'd:
Forgive me little moat; I know thou'rt free;
How hath my angry zeale accused thee?
'Las thou wast thither onely sent by me,
My guiltless loves unhappy Mercurie.
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Wouldst know then (Fairest?) whence this dust doth rise?
'Tis caus'd by th'flaming sparkles of thine eies,
Which like the lightning through my veins have shot
Such ardent flames of love, so scorching hot,
My heart's ev'n burnt to ashes; hence it flies,
Dust as you made it, back into your eies.
'Tis caus'd by th'flaming sparkles of thine eies,
Which like the lightning through my veins have shot
Such ardent flames of love, so scorching hot,
My heart's ev'n burnt to ashes; hence it flies,
Dust as you made it, back into your eies.
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