Lucasta - 1921 Author:Richard Lovelace 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: HER MUFFE TAVAS 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 rath... more »er would'st a curse have gain'd, Then let thy warm driven snow be ever stain'd. Not that you feared the discolo'ring cold Might alchymize their silver into gold; Nor could your ten white nuns so sin, That you should thus pennance them in, Each in her coarse hair smock of discipline. Nor, Hero-like who, on their crest still wore A lyon, panther, leopard, or a bore, To looke their enemies in their herse, Thou would'st thy hand should deeper pierce, And, in its softness rough, appear more fierce. No, no, Lucasta, destiny decreed, That beasts to thee a sacrifice should bleed, And strip themselves-to make you ga: For ne'r yet herald did display / A coat, where sables upon ermine lay. This for lay-lovers, that must stand at dore, Salute the threshold, and admire no more; But I, in my invention tough, Rate not this outward bliss enough, But still contemplate must the hidden muffe. A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE DULL as I was, to think that a court fly Presum'd so neer her eye; f When 'twas th' industrious 'bee I Mistook her glorious face for paradise, To summe up all his chymistry of spice; V With a brave pride and honour led, Neer both her suns he makes his bed, And, though a spark, struggles to rise as red. Then semulates the gay Daughter of day; Acts the romantic phoenix' fate, When now, with all his sweets lay'd out in state, Lucasta scatters but one heat, And all the aromatick pills do sweat, And gums calcin'd themselves to powder beat, Which a fresh gale of air Conveys into her hair; Then chaft, he's set on fire, And in these holy flames doth glad expire; And that black marbl...« less