Richard Lovelace

I.
In the nativity of time,
Chloris! it was not thought a crime  In direct Hebrew for to woe.
Now wee make love, as all on fire

Когда в узилище ко мне
Летит Эрот шальной
И возникает в тишине
Алтея предо мной,…

I.Tis true the beauteous Starre
To which I first did bow
Burnt quicker, brighter far,
Than that which leads me now;…

My Lady Anne LovelaceTo the richest Treasury
That e'er fill'd ambitious eye;
To the faire bright Magazin
Hath impoverisht Love's Queen;…

Трудяга муравей, повремени!
Ты сам - погонщик свой и конь с тележкой:
Здесь, под листком, в густой его тени
Передохни хоть малость и помешкай.…

Амаранта, бога ради,
Полно мучить эти пряди!
Пусть они, как жадный взгляд,
По плечам твоим скользят.…

Why should you swear I am forsworn,
Since thine I vowed to be?
Lady, it is already morn,
And 'twas last night I swore to

Heark! Oh heark! you guilty trees,
In whose gloomy galleries
Was the cruell'st murder done,
That e're yet eclipst the sunne.…

I.Now Whitehall's in the grave,
And our head is our slave,
The bright pearl in his close shell of oyster;
Now the miter is lost,…

"Come, pretty birds, present your lays,
And learn to chaunt a goddess praise;
Ye wood-nymphs, let your voices be
Employ'd to serve her deity:

Я не любитель маленьких худышек:
Пускай они проворнее мартышек,
Не радует меня костей излишек.Уж коли есть внутри у ней скелет,
Пусть будет он в тугую плоть одет…

I.Ah me! the little tyrant theefe!
As once my heart was playing,
He snatcht it up and flew away,
Laughing at all my praying.II.Proud of his purchase, he surveys…

How have I bin religious? what strange
Has scap't me, that I never understood?
Have I hel-guarded Haeresie o'rthrowne?
Heald wounded states? made kings and kingdoms one?

Mongst the worlds wonders, there doth yet remain
One greater than the rest, that's all those o're again,
And her own self beside: A Lady, whose soft breast
Is with vast honours soul and virtues life possest.…

I.Long in thy shackels, liberty
I ask not from these walls, but thee;
Left for awhile anothers bride,
To fancy all the world beside.II.Yet e're I doe begin to love,…

Меня неверным не зови
За то, что тихий сад
Твоей доверчивой любви
Сменял на гром и ад.Да, я отныне увлечен…

LL me not,
Sweet,
I am unkind,
That from the

That frown, Aminta, now hath drown'd
Thy bright front's pow'r, and crown'd
Me that was bound.
No, no, deceived cruel, no!…

Sir, how unravell'd is the golden fleece:
Men, that could only fool at
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To My Lady H. OdeITell me, ye subtill judges in loves treasury,
Inform me, which hath most inricht mine eye,
This diamonds greatnes, or its clarity?IIYe cloudy spark lights, whose vast multitude
Of fires are harder to be found then view'd,…

I.
When I by thy faire shape did sweare,
And mingled with each vowe a teare,
I lov'd

Small type of great ones, that do hum
Within this whole world's narrow room,
That with a busie hollow noise
Catch at the people's vainer voice,…

To My Noble Friend, Mr. Charles CottonI.Oh thou, that swing'st upon the waving eare
Of some well-filled oaten beard,
Drunk ev'ry night with a delicious teare
Dropt thee from Heav'n, where now th'art reard.II.The joyes of earth and ayre are thine intire,…

I.Twas not for some calm blessing to deceive,
Thou didst thy polish'd hands in shagg'd furs weave;
It were no blessing thus obtain'd;
Thou rather would'st a curse have gain'd,…