Quote #11
Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,-
More from John Suckling
- She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.
- But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own,
- 'T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
- The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
- Her lips were red, and one was thin; Compared with that was next her chin,- Some bee had stung it newly.
- Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh, she dances such a way! No sun upon a…
- 'High characters,' cries one, and he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be.
- Oh for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to know Whether the nobler chaplets …