The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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Davids Elegie upon Jonathan
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Davids Elegie upon Jonathan
What Name of Comfort can returne
My Heart to mee!
Deare Freind in Thee
My life is dead, my Joy doth mourne.
My Heart to mee!
Deare Freind in Thee
My life is dead, my Joy doth mourne.
O Jonathan, my Reverend Mother,
(Though fertile Shee,)
Ne'r blessed Mee
With halfe so sweet & deare a Brother.
(Though fertile Shee,)
Ne'r blessed Mee
With halfe so sweet & deare a Brother.
Delicious, Freind, wert Thou to Mee;
Engaddies Bed
Did never spread
Perfumes so rich & sweet as Thee.
Engaddies Bed
Did never spread
Perfumes so rich & sweet as Thee.
Thy love to Mee, my Jonathan,
(Heart spare to break
Before I speak)
Thy love knew no Comparison.
(Heart spare to break
Before I speak)
Thy love knew no Comparison.
Weak Woman's Love, esteem'd wth thine,
Though stout before,
Grew faint & poore;
Thy Love, as Thou, was Masculine.
Though stout before,
Grew faint & poore;
Thy Love, as Thou, was Masculine.
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