COWLEY.
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As they sought only for novelty, they did not much inquire whether their allusions were to things high or low, elegant or gross; whether they compared the little to the great, or the great to the little.
Physick and Chirurgery for a Lover:
Gently, ah gently, madam, touch
The wound, which you yourself have made;
That pain must needs be very much.
Which makes me of your hand afraid.
Cordials of pity give me now.
Cowley.For I too weak of purgings grow.
The wound, which you yourself have made;
That pain must needs be very much.
Which makes me of your hand afraid.
Cordials of pity give me now.
Cowley.For I too weak of purgings grow.
The world and a clock:
Mahol th'inferior world's fantastic face,
Thro' all the turns of matter's maze did trace;
Great Nature's well-set clock in pieces took;
On all the springs and smallest wheels did look
Of life and motion, and with equal art
Made up the whole again of every part.
Cowley.
Thro' all the turns of matter's maze did trace;
Great Nature's well-set clock in pieces took;
On all the springs and smallest wheels did look
Of life and motion, and with equal art
Made up the whole again of every part.
Cowley.
A coal-pit has not often found its poet; but that it may not want its due honour, Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun:
The moderate value of our guiltless ore
Makes no man atheist, and no woman whore;
Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine
Deserve more honour than a flaming mine?
Makes no man atheist, and no woman whore;
Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine
Deserve more honour than a flaming mine?
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