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A face that should content me wondrous well , Should not be fair , but lovely to
behold ; With gladsome cheer all grief for to expel : With sober looks , so would I
that it should Speak without words , such words as none can tell ; The tress also ...
A face that should content me wondrous well , Should not be fair , but lovely to
behold ; With gladsome cheer all grief for to expel : With sober looks , so would I
that it should Speak without words , such words as none can tell ; The tress also ...
Page 125
Some lovers speak , when they their muses entertain , Of hopes begot by fear , of
wot not what desires , Of force of heavenly beams , infusing hellish pain , Of living
deaths , dear wounds , fair storms , and freezing fires : Some one his songs in ...
Some lovers speak , when they their muses entertain , Of hopes begot by fear , of
wot not what desires , Of force of heavenly beams , infusing hellish pain , Of living
deaths , dear wounds , fair storms , and freezing fires : Some one his songs in ...
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Shafts to pierce the strong I view , Wings the flying to pursue ; Victim of his pow'r ,
behind Stalks a slave of human kind , Whose disdain of all the free Speaks his
mind's captivity . LOVE's the tyrant , Youth the slave ; Youth in vain is wise or ...
Shafts to pierce the strong I view , Wings the flying to pursue ; Victim of his pow'r ,
behind Stalks a slave of human kind , Whose disdain of all the free Speaks his
mind's captivity . LOVE's the tyrant , Youth the slave ; Youth in vain is wise or ...
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O you , that guide me through this darksome vale , “ Fain would I speak , " I cried ,
" with yonder pair , That with such swiftness Ait before the gale . " And thus he
answer'd : - " when they pass more near , Speak , and adjure them by that tender
...
O you , that guide me through this darksome vale , “ Fain would I speak , " I cried ,
" with yonder pair , That with such swiftness Ait before the gale . " And thus he
answer'd : - " when they pass more near , Speak , and adjure them by that tender
...
Page 406
... -but tell me , fair , Why turn those eyes to earth , and fix them there ? And why
those cheeks do burning blushes fill ? Speak , I conjure thee , speak ! -but oh !
forbear If thou must tell me that he loves thee still . From the Spanish of Cervantes
.
... -but tell me , fair , Why turn those eyes to earth , and fix them there ? And why
those cheeks do burning blushes fill ? Speak , I conjure thee , speak ! -but oh !
forbear If thou must tell me that he loves thee still . From the Spanish of Cervantes
.
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| Title | Kentish Poets. A series of writers in English poetry, natives or residents in the county of Kent; with specimens of their compositions and some account of their lives and writings. By R. F. |
| Author | Rowland FREEMAN |
| Publisher | G. Wood, 1821 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 4 Feb 2015 |
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