The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... keep Watchful sorrows charmed in sleep ! Tho ' the eyes be overtaken , Yet the heart doth ever waken Thoughts chained up in busy snares Of continual woes and cares : Love and griefs are so exprest As they rather sigh than rest . Fly ...
... keep Watchful sorrows charmed in sleep ! Tho ' the eyes be overtaken , Yet the heart doth ever waken Thoughts chained up in busy snares Of continual woes and cares : Love and griefs are so exprest As they rather sigh than rest . Fly ...
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... keep thy flock with me ! Cor . Phyllida , my true love , is it she ? I come then , I come then , I come and keep my flock with thee . Phyl . Here are cherries ripe for my Corydon ; Eat them for my sake . Cor . Here's my oaten pipe , my ...
... keep thy flock with me ! Cor . Phyllida , my true love , is it she ? I come then , I come then , I come and keep my flock with thee . Phyl . Here are cherries ripe for my Corydon ; Eat them for my sake . Cor . Here's my oaten pipe , my ...
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... remember , To - morrow is another day . Cor . Doubt me not , my true love , do not fear ; Farewell then , farewell then ! Heaven keep our loves alway . Anon . 7 . Summons to Love PHUS , arise ! And 5 ELIZABETHAN VERSE.
... remember , To - morrow is another day . Cor . Doubt me not , my true love , do not fear ; Farewell then , farewell then ! Heaven keep our loves alway . Anon . 7 . Summons to Love PHUS , arise ! And 5 ELIZABETHAN VERSE.
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... keep us together . Light hath no tongue , but is all eye . If it could speak as well as spy , This were the worse that it could say : That , being well , I fain would stay , And that I lov'd my heart and honour so , That I would not ...
... keep us together . Light hath no tongue , but is all eye . If it could speak as well as spy , This were the worse that it could say : That , being well , I fain would stay , And that I lov'd my heart and honour so , That I would not ...
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... keep in , Whenas a thousand virgins on this day Spring , sooner than the lark , to fetch in May . Rise , and put on your foliage , and be seen To come forth , like the spring - time , fresh and green , And sweet as Flora . Take no care ...
... keep in , Whenas a thousand virgins on this day Spring , sooner than the lark , to fetch in May . Rise , and put on your foliage , and be seen To come forth , like the spring - time , fresh and green , And sweet as Flora . Take no care ...
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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