Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

by John Smith Harrison

Huge Interests; whilst I

Adore her Modestie;

Which Tongues cannot deprave, nor Swords defend.

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“But while I bring

My verse to Sing

Her Glories, I am strucke with wonder, more;

And all the Formes I see,

But Emptie Shadowes bee,

Of that Perfection which I adore.