The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... Lambs frisk and play , the shepherds pipe all day , And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay- Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! The fields breathe sweet , the daisies kiss our feet II ELIZABETHAN VERSE II. ...
... Lambs frisk and play , the shepherds pipe all day , And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay- Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! The fields breathe sweet , the daisies kiss our feet II ELIZABETHAN VERSE II. ...
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William Stanley Braithwaite. The fields breathe sweet , the daisies kiss our feet , Young lovers meet , old wives a - sunning sit , In every street these tunes our ears do greet Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! Spring ...
William Stanley Braithwaite. The fields breathe sweet , the daisies kiss our feet , Young lovers meet , old wives a - sunning sit , In every street these tunes our ears do greet Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! Spring ...
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... Kissing with golden face the meadows green , Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy ; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face , And from the forlorn world his visage hide , Stealing unseen to west ...
... Kissing with golden face the meadows green , Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy ; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face , And from the forlorn world his visage hide , Stealing unseen to west ...
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... kiss and bear away The richer cowslips home . You've heard them sweetly sing , And seen them in a round : Each virgin like a spring , With honeysuckles crowned . But now we see none here Whose silvery feet did tread And with dishevelled ...
... kiss and bear away The richer cowslips home . You've heard them sweetly sing , And seen them in a round : Each virgin like a spring , With honeysuckles crowned . But now we see none here Whose silvery feet did tread And with dishevelled ...
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... kiss , both odd and even : Many a glance , too , has been sent From out the eye , love's firmament : Many a jest told of the keys betraying This night , and locks pick'd : yet we're not a - Maying . Come , let us go , while we are in ...
... kiss , both odd and even : Many a glance , too , has been sent From out the eye , love's firmament : Many a jest told of the keys betraying This night , and locks pick'd : yet we're not a - Maying . Come , let us go , while we are in ...
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Anon Astrophel and Stella beauty bel ami Ben Jonson birds bliss breast breath bright Bullen Campion Corydon dear death delight desire dost doth Dowden earth Elizabethan England's Helicon eyes Faery Queene fair fairy-queen faith fear fire Fletcher flowers glory golden grace green grief hair happy hath heart heaven heavenly Herrick honour Jonson King kiss Lady leave light Line Line 11 lips live livës joy look Lord Love's Love's Labour's Lost lovers lullaby Madrigals maids merry mind Muse N'oserez never night nymphs passions pity pleasure poem poets praise Prof Queen Queen Mab rest roses says Shakespeare shalt shepherd shine sighs sing sleep smile song sonnet sorrow soul Spenser spring stanzas star swain sweet tears tell Tereus thee thine things thou art thought true love unto verse wanton weep Whilst wind youth
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Page 641 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown...
Page 657 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 201 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 550 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 59 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 401 - Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 536 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky! The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly...
Page 440 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby ; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby : Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh ; So, good night, with lullaby.
Page 639 - Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 45 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.