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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THESE LABOURED POEMS OF THE DECEASED AUTHOR, MR. WILLIAM BOSWORTH, by L. C.
First Line: These bleeding lovers, and unstain'd desires
Last Line: Into new life, and set on fire your own.
Subject(s): Bosworth, William (1618-1650)
First Line: These bleeding lovers, and unstain'd desires
Last Line: Into new life, and set on fire your own.
Subject(s): Bosworth, William (1618-1650)
THESE bleeding lovers, and unstain'd desires,
Their undry'd tears, and their religious fires,
And their stars' sullen malice, which did bend
Their lives and loves to an untimely end,
May bring the pious reader with perfumes
Of flow'rs and sighs to worship at their tombs,
And their high flames admire. But oh, forbear
That hasty zeal, and do not tread too near,
For know the flames so ardent were that burn'd
Their suffering hearts, and them to ashes turn'd,
That by your sighs they may too soon be blown
Into new life, and set on fire your own.
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