Lucasta Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. To which is added Aramantha, A Pastorall. By Richard Lovelace |
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To a Lady that desired me I would beare my part with her in a Song.
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To a Lady that desired me I would beare my part with her in a Song.
Madam A. L.
This is the Prittiest Motion:
Madam, th'Alarums of a Drumme
That cals your Lord, set to your Cries,
To mine are sacred Symphonies.
Madam, th'Alarums of a Drumme
That cals your Lord, set to your Cries,
To mine are sacred Symphonies.
What, though 'tis said I have a Voice;
I know 'tis but that hollow noise
Which (as it through my pipe doth speed)
Bitterns do Carol through a Reed;
In the same Key with Monkeys Jiggs,
Or Dirges of Proscribed Piggs,
Or the soft Serenades above
In calme of Night, when Cats make Love.
I know 'tis but that hollow noise
Which (as it through my pipe doth speed)
Bitterns do Carol through a Reed;
In the same Key with Monkeys Jiggs,
Or Dirges of Proscribed Piggs,
Or the soft Serenades above
In calme of Night, when Cats make Love.
Was ever such a Consort seen!
Fourscore and fourteen with forteen?
Yet sooner they'l agree, One Paire,
Then we in our Spring-Winter Aire;
They may Imbrace, Sigh, Kisse the rest:
Our Breath knows nought but East and West.
Thus have I heard to Childrens Cries,
The faire Nurse 'still such Lullabies
That well all sayd (for what there lay)
The Pleasure did the sorrow pay.
Fourscore and fourteen with forteen?
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Then we in our Spring-Winter Aire;
They may Imbrace, Sigh, Kisse the rest:
Our Breath knows nought but East and West.
Thus have I heard to Childrens Cries,
The faire Nurse 'still such Lullabies
That well all sayd (for what there lay)
The Pleasure did the sorrow pay.
Sure ther's another way to save
Your Phansie Madam, that's to have
('Tis but petitioning kinde Fate)
The Organs sent to Bilingsgate;
Where they to that soft murm'ring Quire
Shall reach you All you can admire!
Or do but heare how Love-bang Kate
In Pantry darke for freage of Mate
With edge of steele the square wood shapes,
And Dido to it chaunts or scrapes.
The merry Phaeton oth' Carre,
You'l vow makes a melodious Jarre;
Sweeter and sweeter whisleth He
To un-anointed Axel-tree;
Such swift notes he and's wheels do run;
For me, I yeeld him Phæbus Son.
Your Phansie Madam, that's to have
('Tis but petitioning kinde Fate)
The Organs sent to Bilingsgate;
Where they to that soft murm'ring Quire
Shall reach you All you can admire!
Or do but heare how Love-bang Kate
In Pantry darke for freage of Mate
With edge of steele the square wood shapes,
And Dido to it chaunts or scrapes.
The merry Phaeton oth' Carre,
You'l vow makes a melodious Jarre;
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To un-anointed Axel-tree;
Such swift notes he and's wheels do run;
For me, I yeeld him Phæbus Son.
Say faire Comandres, can it be
You should Ordaine a Mutinie?
For where I howle, all Accents fall
As Kings Harangues to One and All.
You should Ordaine a Mutinie?
For where I howle, all Accents fall
As Kings Harangues to One and All.
Ulisses Art is now withstood,
You ravish both with Sweet and Good;
Saint Syren sing, for I dare heare,
But when I Ope', Oh stop your Eare.
You ravish both with Sweet and Good;
Saint Syren sing, for I dare heare,
But when I Ope', Oh stop your Eare.
Far lesse be't Æmulation
To passe me, or in trill or Tone
Like the thin throat of Philomel,
And the smart Lute who should excell,
As if her soft Chords should begin
And strive for sweetnes with the Pin.
To passe me, or in trill or Tone
Like the thin throat of Philomel,
And the smart Lute who should excell,
As if her soft Chords should begin
And strive for sweetnes with the Pin.
Yet can I Musick too; but such,
As is beyond all Voice or Touch;
My minde can in faire Order Chime,
Whilst my true Heart still beats the Time:
My Soule so full of Harmonie,
That it with all parts can agree:
If you winde up to the highest Fret
It shall descend an Eight from it,
And when you shall vouchsafe to fall
Sixteene above you it shall call,
And yet so dis-assenting One,
They both shall meet an Unison.
As is beyond all Voice or Touch;
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Whilst my true Heart still beats the Time:
My Soule so full of Harmonie,
That it with all parts can agree:
If you winde up to the highest Fret
It shall descend an Eight from it,
And when you shall vouchsafe to fall
Sixteene above you it shall call,
And yet so dis-assenting One,
They both shall meet an Unison.
Come then bright Cherubin begin!
My loudest Musick is within:
Take all notes with your skillfull Eyes,
Hearke if mine do not sympathise!
Sound all my thoughts, and see exprest
The Tablature of my large Brest,
Then you'l admit that I too can
Musick above dead sounds of Man;
Such as alone doth blesse the Spheres,
Not to be Reacht with humane Eares.
My loudest Musick is within:
Take all notes with your skillfull Eyes,
Hearke if mine do not sympathise!
Sound all my thoughts, and see exprest
The Tablature of my large Brest,
Then you'l admit that I too can
Musick above dead sounds of Man;
Such as alone doth blesse the Spheres,
Not to be Reacht with humane Eares.
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