Elizabethan Sonnets, Vol. 2 of 2: An English Garner (Classic Reprint)

Lodge"] IJ93-J P HI L LIS. 3 SONNET I. H PLEASING thoughts, apprentices of love, Fore-runners of desire, sweet mithridates The poison of my sorrows to remove, With whom my hopes and fear full oft debates 1 Enrich yourselves and me by your self riches, Which are the thoughts you spend on heaven-bred beauty, Rouse you my muse beyond our poets' pitches, And, working wonders, yet say all is duty! Use you nOeaglets' eyes, nor phcenix' feathers, To tower the heaven from whence heaven's wonder sallies. For why? Your sun sings sweetly to her weathers, Making a spring of winter in the valleys. Show to the world, though poor and scant my skill is, How sweet thoughts be, that arc but thoughts on Phillis. SONNET II. Ou sacred sea-nymphs pleasantly disporting Amidst this wat'ry world, where now I sail; If ever love, or lovers sad reporting, Had power sweet tears from your fair eyes to hail; And you, more gentle-hearted than the rest, Under the northern noon-stead sweetly streaming L

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CONTENTS; PAGB; *Thomas Lodge-Phillis Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets,; Elegies, and amorous delights, 1593, I; Giles Fletcher, LLD-Licia, or, Poems of Love in Honour of the admirable and singular virtues of his Lady To the imitation of the best Latin Poets, and others, 1593, , 23; Henry Constable and others-Diana, or, The excellent conceit-ful Sonnets of H C Augmented with divers Quatorzains of honourable and learned personages Divided into viii Decades, 1584 vere 1594],75; Samuel Daniel-Delia (1594),115; William Percy-Sonnets to the Fairest Ccelia, 1594, 137; Anonymous-Zepheria, 1594,153; Michael Drayton-Idea In sixty-three Sonnets, 1594-1619, 179; ?Edmund Spenser-Amoretti and Epithalamion, 1595, 213; Bartholomew Griffin-Fidessa, more chaste than kind, 1596, 261; R[ichard] L[inche]-Diella Certain Sonnets, adjoined to the; amorous poem of Dom Diego and Gyneura, 1596, 297vi Elizabethan Sonnets; PACK; William Smith-Chlor