Poems in English: 1530 - 1940 |
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... PASSION FOR OLD CHINA What ecstasies her bosom fire ! How her eyes languish with desire ! How blessed , how happy ... passion of her soul ; A cup , 156 POEMS IN ENGLISH JOHN GAY (1685-1732) To a Lady on Her Passion for Old China.
... PASSION FOR OLD CHINA What ecstasies her bosom fire ! How her eyes languish with desire ! How blessed , how happy ... passion of her soul ; A cup , 156 POEMS IN ENGLISH JOHN GAY (1685-1732) To a Lady on Her Passion for Old China.
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... PASSION HAVE I KNOWN " Strange fits of passion have I known : And I will dare to tell , But in the lover's ear alone , What once to me befell . When she I loved looked every day Fresh as a rose in June , I to her cottage bent my way ...
... PASSION HAVE I KNOWN " Strange fits of passion have I known : And I will dare to tell , But in the lover's ear alone , What once to me befell . When she I loved looked every day Fresh as a rose in June , I to her cottage bent my way ...
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... passionate expression of personal emotion nor a witty and ironic use of paradox can be found in Johnson's poetry : there is passion here , but it is the sententious passion of a man who is a moralist before he is an exhibitionist , and ...
... passionate expression of personal emotion nor a witty and ironic use of paradox can be found in Johnson's poetry : there is passion here , but it is the sententious passion of a man who is a moralist before he is an exhibitionist , and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY 15161547 | 12 |
Come sleep O sleep the certain knot of peace 15 Stella oft sees the very face of woe | 18 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman aesthetic distance auld lang syne beauty beneath birds bless breast breath bright charms Danny Deever dark dead dear death doth earth emotion English English poetry eyes face fair fate fear flowers give grace grave green Grongar Hill hair hand hath head hear heart Heaven imagery images kind kings Lady of Shalott leaves light live look Lord lovers Lycidas mind mood morning Mother Muse ne'er never night nymph o'er once pain passion pleasure poem poet poetic poetry praise pride rhyme rise rose round Scholar Gipsy sense shade shine sigh sing sleep smile song sonnet soul sound spirit stanza stars sweet sylphs symbol tears Thalestris thee thine things thought toil verse voice W. H. Auden weep wind wings youth ΙΟ ΙΟ