The Bud.
LAtely on yonder swelling Bush,
Big with many a coming Rose,
This early Bud began to blush,
And did but halfe it selfe disclose:
I pluck'd it, though no better grown,
Yet now you see how full 'tis blown.
Poems &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller ... ; and printed by a copy of his own hand-writing ; all the lyrick poems in this booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes ...
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- Poems &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller ... ; and printed by a copy of his own hand-writing ; all the lyrick poems in this booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes ...
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- Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
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- London :: Printed by I.N. for Hu. Mosley ...,
- 1645.
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Still as I did the leaves inspire,
With such a purple light they shone.
As if they had been made of fire,
And spreading so would flame anon.
All that was meant by Aire or Sun
To the young Flower, my breath has done.
If our loose breath so much can doe,
What may the same in formes of Love,
Of purest Love and Musick too,
When Flavia it aspires to move;
When that which lifeless Buds persuades
To wax more soft, her youth invades?