The Poets of the Elizabethan Age, a Selection of Their Most Celebrated Songs and Sonnets

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SAMELA. Like to Diana in her summer weed, Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye, Goes fair Samela; Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed, When washed by Arethusa faint they lie, Is fair Samela; As fair Aurora in her morning grey, Decked with the ruddy glister of her love, Is fair Samela; Like lovely Thetis on a calmed day, Vhenas her brightness Neptune's fancy move, Shines fair Samela; Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassy streams, Her teeth are pearl, the breasts are ivory Of fair Samela; Her cheeks, like rose and lily yield forth gleams, Her brows' bright arches framed of ebony; Thus fair Samela Passeth fair Venus in her bravest hue, And Juno in the show of majesty, For she's Samela: Pallas in wit, all three, if you will view, For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity Yield to Samela. Robert Greene.CONTENT?A SONNET. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content: The quiet mind is richer than a crown: Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent: The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss. Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride nor care, The mean, that 'grees with country music best, The sweet consort of mirth's and music's fare. Obscured life sets down a type of bliss: A mind content both crown and kingdom is. Robert Green ?. SONNET. When May is in his prime and youthful spring Doth clothe the tree with leaves, and ground with flowers, And time of year reviveth every thing, And lovely nature smiles, and nothing lours-; SONNET. Then Philomela most doth strain her breast With night-complaints, and sits in little rest. This bird's es...