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I can love both fair and brown;
Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays;Her whom the country form’d, and whom the town;Her who believes, and her who tries;Her who still weeps with spongy eyes,And her who is dry cork, and never cries.I can love her, and her, and you, and you;I can love any, so she be not…
Once, and but once found in thy company,
And as a thief at bar is questioned thereBy all the men that have been robed that year,So am I (by this traiterous means surprized)By thy hydroptic father catechized.Though he had wont to search with glazed eyes,As though he came to kill a cockatrice,Though he hath oft sworn that he would removeThy beauty’s beauty, and…
PREGNANT again with th’ old twins, Hope and Fear,
Thou wert ; and what my hopes of letters were ;As in our streets sly beggars narrowlyWatch motions of the giver’s hand or eye,And evermore conceive some hope thereby.And now thy alms is given, thy letter’s read,The body risen again, the which was dead,And thy poor starveling bountifully fed.After this banquet my soul doth say…
BLASTED with sighs, and surrounded with tears,
And at mine eyes, and at mine ears,Receive such balms as else cure every thing.But O ! self-traitor, I do bringThe spider Love, which transubstantiates all,And can convert manna to gall ;And that this place may thoroughly be thoughtTrue paradise, I have the serpent brought.‘Twere wholesomer for me that winter didBenight the glory of this…
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest,
How God the Spirit, by angels waited onIn heaven, doth make his Temple in thy breast.The Father having begot a Son most blest,And still begetting, (for he ne’er be gone)Hath deigned to choose thee by adoption,Co-heir t’ his glory, and Sabbath’ endless rest.And as a robbed man, which by search doth findHis stol’n stuff sold,…