The Carver. To his Mistris.
A Carver having lov'd to long in vain,
Hew'd out the portraiture of Venus Sunn
In marble rocke, upon the which did rain
Small drisling drops that from a fount did runn.
Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...
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- Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...
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- Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
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- London :: Printed for H.M., and are to be sold by J. Martin ...,
- 1651.
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"Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34171.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Imagining the drops would either wear
His fury out, or quench his living flame:
But when he saw it bootless did appear,
He swore the water did augment the same.
So I that seek in verse to carve thee out,
Hoping thy beauty will my flame allay,
Viewing my lines impolish't all throughout,
Find my will rather to my love obey:
That with the Carver I my work do blame,
Finding it still th'augmenter of my flame.