English Lyrics Chaucer to Poe 1340-1809 |
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... Fair Lucrece , as I wene , Or else fair Polexene , Or else Caliope , Or else Penolope : - For this most goodly flower , This blossom of fresh colour , So Jupiter me succóur , She flourisheth fresh and new In beauty and virtue ! The Indy ...
... Fair Lucrece , as I wene , Or else fair Polexene , Or else Caliope , Or else Penolope : - For this most goodly flower , This blossom of fresh colour , So Jupiter me succóur , She flourisheth fresh and new In beauty and virtue ! The Indy ...
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... fair skin , Whiter than the swan . It would make any man To forget deadly sin Her favour to win : - For this most goodly flower , This blossom of fresh colour , So Jupiter me succóur , She flourisheth fresh and new In beauty and virtue ...
... fair skin , Whiter than the swan . It would make any man To forget deadly sin Her favour to win : - For this most goodly flower , This blossom of fresh colour , So Jupiter me succóur , She flourisheth fresh and new In beauty and virtue ...
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... fair ; For what she saith , ye may it trust , As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many moe Than I with pen have skill to show . I could rehearse , if that I would , The whole effect of Nature's plaint , When she had lost ...
... fair ; For what she saith , ye may it trust , As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many moe Than I with pen have skill to show . I could rehearse , if that I would , The whole effect of Nature's plaint , When she had lost ...
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... fair little son ; So forth I go apace to see that liefsome sight , And with a kiss , methinks I say : Welcome , my lord , my knight ! Welcome , my sweet , alas ! the stay of my welfare , Thy presence bringeth forth a truce betwixt me ...
... fair little son ; So forth I go apace to see that liefsome sight , And with a kiss , methinks I say : Welcome , my lord , my knight ! Welcome , my sweet , alas ! the stay of my welfare , Thy presence bringeth forth a truce betwixt me ...
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... blinkis of that dulce amene ; So comely clear are her twa een , That she mae lovers does affray Then ever of Greece did fair Helene ! - Whom I love I dare nocht assay . ' Anonymous . 23 A PRAISE OF HIS LADY GIVE place , you ANONYMOUS 135 ...
... blinkis of that dulce amene ; So comely clear are her twa een , That she mae lovers does affray Then ever of Greece did fair Helene ! - Whom I love I dare nocht assay . ' Anonymous . 23 A PRAISE OF HIS LADY GIVE place , you ANONYMOUS 135 ...
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English Lyrics: Chaucer to Poe; 1340 1809 (Classic Reprint) William Ernest Henley No preview available - 2018 |
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