Oh, stay that covetous hand; first turn all eye,
All depth and minde; then mystically spye
Her soul's faire picture, her faire soul's, in all
So truely copied from th' originall,
That you will sweare her body by this law
Is but its shadow, as this, its;--now draw.

(C) Richard Lovelace
03/28/2017


Best Poems of Richard Lovelace

• Mar. Lib. Iv. Ep. 33.
• A Paradox
• Song To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
• Depose Your Finger Of That Ring
• Song.
• Item
• Cupid Far Gone
• Clitophon And Lucippe Translated. To The Ladies
• De Quintia Et Sesbia. Ep. 87
• Female Glory
• Ode
• The Grasshopper
• Oreheus To Woods
• The Ant
• On The Best, Last, And Only Remaning Comedy Of Mr. Fletcher. The Wild Goose Chase
• In Lesbiam Cat. Ep. 76.
• Being Treated. To Ellinda
• Lucasta Paying Her Obsequies To The Chast Memory Of My Dearest Cosin Mrs. Bowes Barne[s]
• Gratiana Dancing And Singing
• Sonnet