On the Victory Obtained by BlakeOver the SpaniardsIn the Bay of Sanctacruze, in the Island of Teneriff (1657) Now does Spains Fleet her spatious wings unfold,
Leaves the new World and hastens…
A Dialogue Between the Soul and BodySoulO Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise
A Soul inslav'd so many wayes?
With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd stands
In Feet ; and manacled in Hands.
Here…
Clorinda and DamonClorindaDamon come drive thy flocks this way. DamonNo: 'tis too late they went astray.ClorindaI have a grassy Scutcheon spy'd,
Where Flora blazons all her pride.
The grass I…
The Coronet When for the Thorns with which I long, too long,
With many a piercing wound,
My Saviours head have crown'd,
I seek with Garlands to redress that Wrong:
Through every Garden, every…
Damon the Mower Heark how the Mower Damon Sung,
With love of Juliana stung!
While ev'ry thing did seem to paint
The Scene more fit for his complaint.
Like her fair Eyes the day was fair;
But…
The Definition of Love My Love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high:
It was begotten by despair
Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone.
Could show me so divine…
On a Drop of Dew See how the Orient Dew,
Shed from the Bosom of the Morn
Into the blowing Roses,
Yet careless of its Mansion new;
For the clear Region where 'twas born
Round in its self…
Musicks Empire First was the World as one great Cymbal made,
Where Jarring Windes to infant Nature plaid.
All Musick was a solitary sound,
To hollow Rocks and murm'ring Fountains bound.…
An Epitaph upon — Enough: and leave the rest to Fame.
'Tis to commend her but to name.
Courtship, which living she declin'd,
When dead to offer were unkind.
Where never any could speak ill,…
Eyes and Tears How wisely Nature did decree,
With the same Eyes to weep and see!
That, having view'd the object vain,
They might be ready to complain. And since the Self-deluding Sight,
In a…
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