Rare Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesWilliam James Linton |
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... reasons stated in my Notes . Of the Anonymous Poems , one or two , now and then accidentally appearing in some out of the way collection , I have repeated for the sake of nearer completeness of this division of my subject . My book here ...
... reasons stated in my Notes . Of the Anonymous Poems , one or two , now and then accidentally appearing in some out of the way collection , I have repeated for the sake of nearer completeness of this division of my subject . My book here ...
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... free , Thy beauty hath in durance brought ; Once reason ruled and guided me , And now is wit consumed with thought ; Once I rejoiced above the sky , And now for thee , alas ! I die . Once I rejoiced in company , And now my chief.
... free , Thy beauty hath in durance brought ; Once reason ruled and guided me , And now is wit consumed with thought ; Once I rejoiced above the sky , And now for thee , alas ! I die . Once I rejoiced in company , And now my chief.
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... reason ? No : But thou that reason art without , And therewith void of woe . I live , and so dost thou ; But I live all in pain , And subject am to Her , alas ! That makes my grief her gain . Thou livest , but feel'st no grief ; No love ...
... reason ? No : But thou that reason art without , And therewith void of woe . I live , and so dost thou ; But I live all in pain , And subject am to Her , alas ! That makes my grief her gain . Thou livest , but feel'st no grief ; No love ...
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... reason ; These birds sing – " Now use the season ! " - This small wind , which so sweet is , See how it the leaves doth kiss ! Each tree in its best attiring , Sense of love to love inspiring . Love makes earth the water drink ; Love to ...
... reason ; These birds sing – " Now use the season ! " - This small wind , which so sweet is , See how it the leaves doth kiss ! Each tree in its best attiring , Sense of love to love inspiring . Love makes earth the water drink ; Love to ...
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... reason's purer light Bids you leave such minds to nourish . " Dear ! do reason no such spite : Never doth thy beauty flourish More than in my reason's sight . " But the wrongs love bears will make Love at length leave undertaking ...
... reason's purer light Bids you leave such minds to nourish . " Dear ! do reason no such spite : Never doth thy beauty flourish More than in my reason's sight . " But the wrongs love bears will make Love at length leave undertaking ...
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adieu AMETAS barley-break beauty beauty's beggars bel ami bliss breast bright CARMELA CHORUS CLORINDA CORYDON Cupid's DAMON dare dear death delight desire disdain doth earth EPITHALAMIUM eyes face fair faith fancy fear fire flame flowers Folly Fortune golden golden morning breaks grace grief hast hath heart heaven hope Hymen joys keep kiss Lady light lips live love anew love true Love's lover Lycoris MADRIGALS melancholy methinks mind mirth Mistress N'oserez-vous NATHANIEL FIELD ne'er never night nought Nymphs pain PHILISTUS Phillada flouts PHILLIDA pity play pleasure poems poor praise pride priè RICHARD BRATHWAITE RICHARD BROME scorn shepherd shine sigh sight sing sleep smile SONG sorrow soul Spring stanza stars stay sweet Love tears thee thine thing THOMAS NABBES thou dost Thou lovest amiss thoughts three Ravens TOTTEL'S MISCELLANY tree true love unto untrue Love virtue weep wish
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Page 114 - Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out...
Page 133 - In the green grass she loves to lie, And there with her fair aspect tames The wilder flowers, and gives them names, But only with the roses plays, And them does tell What colour best becomes them, and what smell. Who can foretell for what high cause This darling of the gods was born?
Page 124 - And teach her fair steps to our earth ; Till that divine Idea take a shrine Of crystal flesh, through which to shine ; Meet you her, my Wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd my absent kisses.
Page 204 - THERE is a Lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die.
Page 18 - Only joy, now here you are, Fit to hear and ease my care; Let my whispering voice obtain Sweet reward for sharpest pain; Take me to thee, and thee to me. "No, no, no, no, my dear, let be.
Page 128 - I wish her store Of worth may leave her poor Of wishes; and I wish no more. Now, if Time knows That Her, whose radiant brows Weave them a garland of my vows; Her that dares be What these lines wish to see: I seek no further, it is She. 'Tis She, and here Lo! I unclothe and clear My wishes
Page 38 - As fresh as bin the flowers in May, And of my love my roundelay, My merry, merry, merry roundelay, Concludes with Cupid's curse, — They that do change old love for new, Pray Gods they change for worse ! Ambo simul They that do change, etc.
Page 184 - Weep you no more, sad fountains; What need you flow so fast? Look how the snowy mountains Heaven's sun doth gently waste! But my sun's heavenly eyes, View not your weeping, That now lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping.
Page 58 - tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
Page 139 - Ametas. Think'st Thou that this Love can stand, Whilst Thou still dost say me nay? Love unpaid does soon disband: Love binds Love as Hay binds Hay.