Oxford Historical and Literary Studies Issued under the direction of C. H. Firth and Walter Raleigh: Professors of Modern History and English Literature in the University of Oxford: Volume 5: Henry Tubbe by G. C. Moore Smith |
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TO THE LADY PEN: SPENCER |
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TO THE LADY PEN: SPENCER
I am turn'd Bankrupt now: for such a floodOf Honour, Vertue, Wisdome, & all Good,
Makes our high flowing Seas of Verse appeare
Dry, fruitlesse Things. Dull Poëtry! forbeare!
When I behold those Eyes, the Orbes of Love
And Mercy, free from anger, sweetly move,
I think what Numbers may outvye that Paire,
And reckon what the secret Vertues are
Of those two Spheares; but find my Selfe undone
To tell but One; One glory but of One.
Figures, Descriptions are in vaine; each part
Is above all Arithmetick & Art.
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