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A thin aerial veil is drawn o'er beauty's face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. - [Bride] Dear hope! earth's dowry and heav'n's debt, The entity of things that are not yet Subtlest, but surest thing. - [Hope] Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace. - [Eyes] Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny. - [Future] Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing. - [Grief] O mighty nothing! unto thee, Nothing, we owe all things that be; God spake once when He all things made, He saved all when He nothing said, The world was made of nothing then; 'Tis made by nothing now again. - [Nothing] And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Vnless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well. - Alexias [Love] Heaven's great artillery. - Flaming Heart (l. 56) [Love] She'l bargain with them; and will giue Them GOD; teach them how to liue In him; or if they this deny, For him she'l teach them how to Dy. - Hymn to the Name and Honor of Saint Teresa [Death] A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day. - In Praise of Lessius' Rule of Health (l. 33) [Soul] Love's great artillery. - Prayer (l. 18) [Love] Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again. - Steps to the Temple--To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine [Miracles] The conscious water saw its God and blushed. - Translation of His Own Epigram on the Miracle of Cana--St. John's Gospel (ch. II) [Wine and Spirits] Life, that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, "Welcome, friend!" - Wished to his (Supposed) Mistress (st. 29) [Death] Tresses, that wear Jewels, but to declare How much themselves more precious are. - Wishes to his (supposed) Mistress [Hair] Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me. - Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress [Women] Days that need borrow No part of their good morrow, From a fore-spent night of sorrow. - Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress (st. 27) [Day : Today] Eyes, that displaces The neighbor diamond, and out-faces That sun-shine by their own sweet graces. - Wishes--To his (Supposed) Mistress [Eyes] Mighty Love's artillery. - Wounds of the Lord Jesus (l. 2) [Love]
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