English Lyrics Chaucer to Poe 1340-1809 |
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... Beauty ( 3 ) , or Jonson's Epithalamy ( 161 ) , or Herrick's To Daffodils ( 214 ) , or Dunbar's Lament ( 4 ) , or Keats's Belle Dame Sans Merci ( 400 ) —in fact to any number in this book , as I believe - and your result will be the ...
... Beauty ( 3 ) , or Jonson's Epithalamy ( 161 ) , or Herrick's To Daffodils ( 214 ) , or Dunbar's Lament ( 4 ) , or Keats's Belle Dame Sans Merci ( 400 ) —in fact to any number in this book , as I believe - and your result will be the ...
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... BEAUTY I. Captivity YOUR eyën two will slay me suddenly : I may the beauty of hem not sustene , So woundeth it through - out my hertë kene . And but your word will helen hastily My hertes woundë , while that it is green , Your eyën two ...
... BEAUTY I. Captivity YOUR eyën two will slay me suddenly : I may the beauty of hem not sustene , So woundeth it through - out my hertë kene . And but your word will helen hastily My hertes woundë , while that it is green , Your eyën two ...
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William Ernest Henley. Alas ! that nature hath in you compassed So great beauty , that no man may attain To mercy , though he sterve for the pain ! So hath your beauty from your herte chased Pity , that me ne availeth not to plain ; For ...
William Ernest Henley. Alas ! that nature hath in you compassed So great beauty , that no man may attain To mercy , though he sterve for the pain ! So hath your beauty from your herte chased Pity , that me ne availeth not to plain ; For ...
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... beauty : - Timor Mortis conturbat me . He spares no lord for his piscence , No clerk for his intelligence ; His awful stroke may no man flee : ---- Timor Mortis conturbat me . Art - magicians and astrologues , Rethors , logicians ...
... beauty : - Timor Mortis conturbat me . He spares no lord for his piscence , No clerk for his intelligence ; His awful stroke may no man flee : ---- Timor Mortis conturbat me . Art - magicians and astrologues , Rethors , logicians ...
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... beauty , nor luif's bliss May let me to remember this , How glad that ever I dine or sowp . Yet , when the night begins to short , It does my spreit some part comfort , Of thought oppressed with the showers . Come , lusty Summer ! with ...
... beauty , nor luif's bliss May let me to remember this , How glad that ever I dine or sowp . Yet , when the night begins to short , It does my spreit some part comfort , Of thought oppressed with the showers . Come , lusty Summer ! with ...
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