Living
Eternitas
From Minerva Britanna (1612)
Living
A VIRGIN faire, purtraicted as you see,
With haire dispred, in comelie wise behind:
Within whose handes, two golden balls there be:
But from the brest, the nether partes are twin'd
Within a starrie circle, do expresse,
Eternitie, or Everlastingnes.
ETERNITIE is young, and never old:
The circle wantes beginning and the end:
And vncorrupt for ever lies the gold:
The heaven her lightes for evermore did lend,
The Heathen thought, though heauen & earth must passe,
And all in time decay that ever was.
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MLA
Peacham, Henry. “Eternitas.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/138/.
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Peacham, Henry. “Eternitas.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/138/.
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