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Poems

by Thomas Stanley

Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678)

[epigraph]

Desiring her to burn his Verses.

The Night.

Excuse for wishing Her lesse Fair.

Chang'd, yet Constant.

Song.

Commanded by his Mistris to woe for her.

The Repulse.

The Tombe.

The Enjoyment.

To Celia pleading want of Merit.

Speaking and Kissing.

The Snow-ball.

The Deposition.

To his Mistresse in Absence.

To his Mistress who dreamed He was wounded.

The Echange.

Unaltred by Sicknesse.

On His Mistresse's Death.

To a blinde Man in Love.

To the Countess of S. with the holy Court.

Song. DE VOITURE.

Drawn for Valentine by the L. D. S.

The modest Wish.

E Catalectis vet. Poet.

On the Edition of M. Fletchers Works.

To Mr. W. Hammond.

On M. Shirley's Poems.

On M. Sherburn's Translation of Seneca's Medea, and vindication of the Author.

On M. Halls Essayes.

On Sir J. S. his Picture and Poems.

The Union.

Answer.

Pythagoras his moral Rules.

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Song.

[Celinda, by what potent art]

Celinda , by what potent art
Or unresisted charm,
Dost thou thine ear and frozen heart
Against my passion arm.

Or by what hidden influence
Of powers in one combin'd
Dost thou rob love of either sense,
Made deaf as well as blind.

Sure thou as friends united hast
Two distant Deities,
And scorn within thy heart hast plac'd,
And love within thine eyes.

Or those soft fetters of thy hair,
A bondage that disdains
All liberty, do guard thine ear
Free from all other chains.

Then my complaint how canst thou hear,
Or I this passion fly,
Since thou imprisoned hast thine ear
And not confin'd thine eye?