The Complete Poems of Dr. Joseph Beaumont (1615-1699) Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...made our Treasury their own by this Their royal Contribution: Yet must we Our own possessions no more possess, Nor reap the fruit of what the World's consent In this rich Moss heaps up for our content. 241. O no l it is in vain that we are by The generous universe thus favored, Whilst Psyche's envious Barbarity, And not our Mouths are by its bounty fed, What patrons for this fierceness can she find, When all the world besides to us are kind? 242. To us, and to our fellow-sufferers, who Her faithful factors are in Senses trade. A most unhappy faithfulness, which no Acceptance finds I they all together plead With woful us, desirous all our last Anchor of hope on righteous Thee to cast. 243 Now by thy mighty Goodness we implore Relief for our loud-crying Injuries. So to thy service this exuberant store We sacrifice; no despicable Price Of thy Compassion, if the total gains Of Nature's wealth be worth thy smallest pains. 244. So thy sole Beck shall be the Law whereby Obliged we our lives will regulate: So great Agenor will unite in thy Acquaintance, and this morning consecrate To peaceful smiles, whose ominous Dawn was red With flashes of fierce War and streaks of Blood. 245 As when the shepherd loitering by the side Of some soft-murmuring Current, lets his ears Drink that complaining story of the Tide; The purling Dialect soon domineers O'r his inchanted spirits, and down he lies Both to the noise and sleep, an easy prize: 246. So Thelema, who linger d all this while In idle audience of Love's blandishments. Was now subdued by her glozing guile, And to the Rebel's fair-tongu'd Plot consents. Her hankering arms she with their treasures fills, Her foolish heart with joy, her face with smiles. 247. And well I see, she cries, how righteous is Your Cause and Quarre...