And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, 53 34-iii. 2. Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land; If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea, What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them, Do but stand upon the foaming shore, The chiding billow seems to pelt the clouds; The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous main, And quench the guards of th' ever-fixed pole: On the enchafed flood. Confound and swallow navigation up. 55 The moon shines bright:-In such a night as this, In such a night, In such a night, Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waved her love In such a night, Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs, 9 Meet would probably be better. 9-v. 1. 56 Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions: oft the teeming earth By the imprisoning of unruly wind Within her womb; which for enlargement striving, Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down Steeples and moss-grown towers. 57 18-iii. 1. A red morn, that ever yet betoken'd Wreck to the sea-man, tempest to the field, Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gust and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds. 58 I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds 59 Poems. 29-i. 3. The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd, Well-apparell'd April on the heel 17-ii. 4. 60 Of limping Winter treads. 35-i. 2. That strew the green lap of the new-come spring. 17-v. 2. 63 An envious sneaping frost, That bites the first-born infants of the spring. 64 The pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter; like favourites, 8-i. 1. Made proud by princes, that advance their pride 65 6-iii. 1. That same dew, which sometime on the buds 66 This guest of summer, 7-iv. 1. The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, 67 The year growing ancient,—— Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth 68 This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Unto our gentle senses. 69 Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks, • Nipping. 15-i. 6. 13-iv. 3. 15-i. 6. The eye of a flower is the technical term for its centre. R Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight: Cut off the heads of too-fast-growing sprays, year All superfluous branches 70 Behold the earth hath roots; 17-iii. 4. Within this mile break forth a hundred springs: 71 27-iv. 3. I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, 72 Here's flowers for you; 7-ii. 2. Hot lavender, mint, savory, marjoram; ▾ The greater cowslip. 13-iv. 3. " Vigorous. 73 O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall That come before the swallow dares, and take bold oxlips, and The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack, To make you garlands of. 74 Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: On the bat's back I do fly, There I couch when owls do cry. Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, After summer, merrily: 13-iv. 3. Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. 75 I am that merry wanderer of the night. And, when she drinks, against her lips I bob, 1-v. 1. And then the whole quire hold their hips and loffe; * Pluto. 7-ii. 1. Y An innocent old woman. |