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Poems, and phancies

written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, And Excellent Princess The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Impression, much Altered and Corrected

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish (1624?-1674)

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TO THE LADY MARCHIONESS OF NEWCASTLE, On Her Book of POEMS.

TO SIR CHARLS CAVENDISH, My Noble Brother-in-Law.

[But at all other things let Fancy fly]

The Poetresses hasty Resolution.

The Poetresses Petition.

An Apology for Writing so much upon this Book.

Part I.

II.

Part II.

A Dialogue between two Supernatural Opinions Concerning Fame.

Another Dialogue of Fame between two Natural Opinions.

A Simple Natural Opinion of the Mind.

The Purchase of Poets, or a Dialogue betwixt the Poets and Fame, and Homer's Marriage.

A Dialogue betwixt Man and Nature.

A Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind.

A Complaint of VVater, Earth and Air against the Sun, by way of Dialogue.

A Dialogue between Earth and Cold.

A Dialogue betwixt Earth and Darkness.

A Dialogue between an Oak, and a Man Cutting it down.

A Dialogue betwixt Birds.

A Dialogue between Melancholy and Mirth.

A Dialogue betwixt Joy and Discretion.

A Dialogue betwixt Wit and Beauty.

A Dialogue between Love and Hate.

A Dialogue betwixt Learning and Ignorance.

A Dialogue betwixt Riches and Poverty.

A Dialogue betwixt Anger and Patience.

A Dialogue between a Bountifull Knight and a Castle Ruin'd in Warr.

A Dialogue betwixt Peace and VVarr.

MORAL DISCOURSES.

A Discourse of Love, the Parent of Passions.

A Discourse of Love Neglected, and Burnt up with Grief.

A Discourse of Man's Pride, or seeming Prerogative.

Of Foolish Ambition.

Of Humility.

Of Riches, or Covetousness.

Of Poverty.

Of Tranquillity.

Of the Shortness of Man's Life, and his Foolish Ambition.

A Moral Discourse of Man and Beast.

Of the Ant.

A Moral Discourse of Corn.

Of the Knowledge of Beasts.

Of Fish.

Of Birds.

Earths Complaint.

A Discourse of a Knave.

Of a Fool.

Of Melancholy.

A Discourse of the Devils Power.

III.

IV.

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A Discourse of Love Neglected, and Burnt up with Grief.

Love is the Cause, and Hate is the Effect,
Wch is produc'd, when Love doth find neglect;
For Love's like Fire, which doth on Fuel burn,
And Grief as Coals, wch quench'd to Blackness turn;

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Whence Pale and Melancholy Ashes grow,
Which every Wind, though weak, about doth blow;
For Life and Strength from thence is gone, and past
With th'Species, which did cause the Form to last;
Which Form, as it was first, comes ne're again:
Thus Love in Melancholy adust is Slain.