The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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Page 33
... Lord LONDON , to thee I do present The merry month of May ; Let each true subject be content To hear me what I say : For from the top of conduit - head , As plainly may appear , I will both tell my name to you , And wherefore I came ...
... Lord LONDON , to thee I do present The merry month of May ; Let each true subject be content To hear me what I say : For from the top of conduit - head , As plainly may appear , I will both tell my name to you , And wherefore I came ...
Page 34
... lords and ladies now abroad , For their disport and play , Do kiss sometimes upon the grass , And sometimes in the hay . Now butter with a leaf of sage Is good to purge the blood ; Fly Venus and phlebotomy , For they are neither good ...
... lords and ladies now abroad , For their disport and play , Do kiss sometimes upon the grass , And sometimes in the hay . Now butter with a leaf of sage Is good to purge the blood ; Fly Venus and phlebotomy , For they are neither good ...
Page 72
... And some others do contend , Quiet none like to a friend . Others hold there is no wealth Compared to a perfect health . Some man's mind in quiet stands , When he is lord of many lands ; But I did sigh , and said all this Was 72 THE BOOK ...
... And some others do contend , Quiet none like to a friend . Others hold there is no wealth Compared to a perfect health . Some man's mind in quiet stands , When he is lord of many lands ; But I did sigh , and said all this Was 72 THE BOOK ...
Page 96
... Lord Brooke 115 . Sweet Robbery HE forward violet thus did I chide : THE Sweet thief , whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells , If not from my love's breath ? The purple pride , Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells , In ...
... Lord Brooke 115 . Sweet Robbery HE forward violet thus did I chide : THE Sweet thief , whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells , If not from my love's breath ? The purple pride , Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells , In ...
Page 106
... Lord ! it is a world to see How virtue can repair , And deck in her such honesty , Whom Nature made so fair . Truly she doth so far exceed Our women nowadays , As doth the gillyflower a weed ; And more a thousand ways . How might I do ...
... Lord ! it is a world to see How virtue can repair , And deck in her such honesty , Whom Nature made so fair . Truly she doth so far exceed Our women nowadays , As doth the gillyflower a weed ; And more a thousand ways . How might I do ...
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Anon Astrophel and Stella beauty bel ami Ben Jonson birds bliss breast breath bright Bullen Campion Corydon Cuckoo 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 lovers lullaby Madrigals maids merry mind Muse N'oserez never night nymphs passions pity pleasure poem poets praise pretty Queen Queen Mab 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 W. W. Greg wanton weep Whilst wind youth