Lucasta Posthume Poems of Richard Lovelace |
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To his noble friend Capt. Dudley Lovelace,
upon his Edition of his Brothers Poems.
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To his noble friend Capt. Dudley Lovelace, upon his Edition of his Brothers Poems.
Thy
pious hand planting fraternal bayes,
Deserving is of most egregious praise;
Since 'tis the organ doth to us convey,
From a descended Sun, so bright a Ray.
Clear Spirit, how much we are bound to thee,
For this so great a Liberalitie,
The truer worth of which by much exceeds
The Western Wealth, which such contention breeds.
Like the Infusing-God, from the Well-head
Of Poesie you have besprinkled
Our brows with holy drops, the very last
Which from your Brother's haypy Pen were cast;
Yet as the last the best, such matchlesse skill
From his divine alembick did distill,
Your honour'd Brother in the Elyzian shade
Will joy to know himself a Laureat made
By your religious care, and that his Urn,
Doth him on Earth immortal life return.
Your self you have a good Physician shown,
To his much grieved friends, and to your own,
In giving this elixir'd Medecine,
For greatest grief a soveraign anodine.
Deserving is of most egregious praise;
Since 'tis the organ doth to us convey,
From a descended Sun, so bright a Ray.
Clear Spirit, how much we are bound to thee,
For this so great a Liberalitie,
The truer worth of which by much exceeds
The Western Wealth, which such contention breeds.
Like the Infusing-God, from the Well-head
Of Poesie you have besprinkled
Our brows with holy drops, the very last
Which from your Brother's haypy Pen were cast;
Yet as the last the best, such matchlesse skill
From his divine alembick did distill,
Your honour'd Brother in the Elyzian shade
Will joy to know himself a Laureat made
By your religious care, and that his Urn,
Doth him on Earth immortal life return.
Your self you have a good Physician shown,
To his much grieved friends, and to your own,
In giving this elixir'd Medecine,
For greatest grief a soveraign anodine.
Sir, from your Brother y'have convey'd us bliss;
Now, since your Genius so concurs with his,
Let your own quill our next enjoyments frame,
All must be rich that's grac'd with Lovelace name.
Now, since your Genius so concurs with his,
Let your own quill our next enjoyments frame,
All must be rich that's grac'd with Lovelace name.
Symon Ognell M. D. Coningbrens.
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