Quote#Nature
Poore verdant foole! and now green Ice, thy Joys
Quote byRichard Lovelace · 1617–1658
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lucasta (1649, '59), The Grasshopper. To My Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton, st. 5.
English (original)
Poore verdant foole! and now green Ice, thy Joys Large and as lasting, as thy Peirch of Grasse, Bid us lay in 'gainst Winter, Raine, and poize Their flouds, with an o'erflowing glasse.
— Richard Lovelace
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Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkind, That from the Nunnerie Of thy chaste breast, and quiet minde, To Warre and Armes I flie.True; a new Mistresse now I chase, The first Foe in the Field; And with a stronger Faith imbrace
As when she ceas'd, we sighing saw The floore lay pav'd with broken hearts.
If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone, You or I were alone; Then my Lucasta might I crave Pity from blustring winde, or swallowing wave.
Though Seas and Land betwixt us both, Our Faith and Troth, Like separated soules, All time and space controules: Above the highest sphere wee meet Unseene, unknowne, and greet as Angels greet.
Heere wee'l strippe and coole our fire In Creame below, in milke-baths higher: And when all Well's are drawne dry, I'le drink a tear out of thine eye.
So did she move; so did she sing Like the Harmonious spheres that bring Unto their Rounds their musick's ayd; Which she performed such a way, As all th' inamour'd world will say The Graces daunced, and Apollo play'd.