The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... fire , Laurels bind about his lyre , A Daphnean coronet for his head , The Muses dance about his bed ; When on his ravishing lute he plays , Strew his temple round with bays . Io , pæans let us sing To the glittering Delian king ! Hark ...
... fire , Laurels bind about his lyre , A Daphnean coronet for his head , The Muses dance about his bed ; When on his ravishing lute he plays , Strew his temple round with bays . Io , pæans let us sing To the glittering Delian king ! Hark ...
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... fire , Accurst that month that hindereth my desire . Like Phoebus ' fire , so sparkle both her eyes , As air perfumed with amber is her breath , Like swelling waves , her lovely breasts do rise , As earth her heart , cold , dateth me to ...
... fire , Accurst that month that hindereth my desire . Like Phoebus ' fire , so sparkle both her eyes , As air perfumed with amber is her breath , Like swelling waves , her lovely breasts do rise , As earth her heart , cold , dateth me to ...
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... fire , And made green liv'ries for the plains , And every grove a choir : Sing we a song of merry glee , And Bacchus fill the bowl : I. Then here's to thee ; 2. And thou to me And every thirsty soul . Nor Care , nor Sorrow e'er paid ...
... fire , And made green liv'ries for the plains , And every grove a choir : Sing we a song of merry glee , And Bacchus fill the bowl : I. Then here's to thee ; 2. And thou to me And every thirsty soul . Nor Care , nor Sorrow e'er paid ...
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... fire , ' Tis a boy they call Desire . ' Tis a grave , Gapes to have Those poor fools that long to prove . Tell me more , are women true ? Yes , some are , and some as you . Some are willing , some are strange , Since you men first ...
... fire , ' Tis a boy they call Desire . ' Tis a grave , Gapes to have Those poor fools that long to prove . Tell me more , are women true ? Yes , some are , and some as you . Some are willing , some are strange , Since you men first ...
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... long wand'ring in a foreign coast : In you they live , to other joys they die , And , living , draw their food from your fair eye . Enforced by Love , and that effectual fire That springs 53 ELIZABETHAN VERSE 58. ...
... long wand'ring in a foreign coast : In you they live , to other joys they die , And , living , draw their food from your fair eye . Enforced by Love , and that effectual fire That springs 53 ELIZABETHAN VERSE 58. ...
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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