Random Bookshelf Reading 79
Question: This week?
Answer: "To the State of Love, or the Senses Festival
I saw a vision yesternight/Enough to tempt a Seekers sigh:/I wisht my self a Shaker there,/And her quick pulse my trembling sphear./It was a She so glittering bright:/You'd think her soul an Adamite;/A person of so rare a frame,/Her bodie might be lin'd with 'same./Beauties chiefest Maid of Honour:/You'd break a Lent with looking on her./Not the fair Abbess of the skies,/With all her Nunnery of eyes,/Can shew me such a glorious prize./ ~John Cleveland (p.218)
From The Metaphysical Poets.
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