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Thomas Carew was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets.

✵ 1594 – 22. March 1640
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Famous Thomas Carew Quotes

“Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauties, orient deep
These flow'rs, as in their causes, steep.”

Thomas Carew

"Song".
Carew's Poems

“Ask me no more, whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For, in pure love, Heaven did prepare
Those, powders to enrich your hair.”

Thomas Carew

"Song".
Carew's Poems

“He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires,—
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.”

Thomas Carew

Disdain Returned, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Then fly betimes, for only they
Conquer Love that run away.”

Thomas Carew

Conquest of Flight, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“But if the envious nymphs shall fear
Their beauties will be scorn'd,
And hire the ruder winds to tear
That face which you adorn'd;

Then rage and foam amain, that we
Their malice may despise;
And from your froth we soon shall see
A second Venus rise.”

Thomas Carew

"On Sight Of A Gentlewoman's Face In The Water".
Carew's Poems

“Ask me no more, where those stars light,
That downwards fall in dead of night;
For in your eyes they sit, and there
Fixed become, as in their sphere.”

Thomas Carew

"Song".
Carew's Poems

“Stand still, you floods, do not deface
That image which you bear:
So votaries, from every place,
To you shall altars rear.

No winds but lovers' sighs blow here,
To trouble these glad streams,
On which no star from any sphere
Did ever dart such beams.”

Thomas Carew

"On Sight Of A Gentlewoman's Face In The Water".
Carew's Poems

“Ask me no more, if cast or west,
The phenix builds her spicy nest;
For unto you at last she flies,
And in your fragrant bosom dies.”

Thomas Carew

"Song".
Carew's Poems

“An untimely grave.”

Thomas Carew

On the Duke of Buckingham, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "An untimely grave", Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, Psalm vii.

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