Famous Covets Poems by Famous Poets
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...r himself—
by the crooked guidance of accursed spirits.
It all seems too little what he has held for a long time.
He covets in evil thoughts and gives no worthy rings
for boasts, and he forgets and neglects the state of things to come,
the honorable share of which God had given him previously,
the Sovereign of Glory. At the conclusion
it eventually happens that the body-house, loaned,
lapses, falling fated—another takes it all up,
who, without mourning, doles out the...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...She, from that hour, in act, and word and thought,—For still the world thus covets what is rare—In many ways though broughtBefore my search, was still the same coy fair:For her alone my plans, from what they were,Grew changed, since nearer subject to her eyes;Her love alone could spurMy young ambition t...Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
...ngs to dote,As unto God alone is just and fit,Disgraces worst the prize who covets most:Should reason, amid things of sense, be lost.This loudly calls her to the proper track:But, when she would obeyAnd home return, ill habits keep her back,And to my view portrayHer who was only born my death to be,Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
...that make Youth loveliest,
Nature in every common aspect seems
To comment on the burden in his breast --
The joys he covets and the dreams he dreams --
One then with all beneath the radiant skies
That laughs with him or sighs,
It courses through the lilac-scented air,
A blessing on the fields, a wonder everywhere.
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses,
Flung like the rose of dawn across the sea,
Alone can flush the exalted consciousness
With shafts of sensible d...Read more of this...
by
Seeger, Alan
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