The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... play - actors , all wrote verse as the familiar and divine gift of some beneficent god on Parnassus who made the English his chosen people of melody . The world was fresh and young ; the West passage to India was still a virgin route ...
... play - actors , all wrote verse as the familiar and divine gift of some beneficent god on Parnassus who made the English his chosen people of melody . The world was fresh and young ; the West passage to India was still a virgin route ...
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... god of day , SING Whose golden beams with morning play , And make her eyes so brightly shine , Aurora's face is called divine ; Sing to Phoebus and that throne Of diamonds which he sits upon . 5 . 6 . Io , pćans let us sing THE BOOK OF.
... god of day , SING Whose golden beams with morning play , And make her eyes so brightly shine , Aurora's face is called divine ; Sing to Phoebus and that throne Of diamonds which he sits upon . 5 . 6 . Io , pćans let us sing THE BOOK OF.
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... plays , Strew his temple round with bays . Io , pćans let us sing To the glittering Delian king ! Hark , Hark ! the Lark J. Lyly [ ARK , hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings , HARK , And Phoebus ' gins arise , His steeds to water at ...
... plays , Strew his temple round with bays . Io , pćans let us sing To the glittering Delian king ! Hark , Hark ! the Lark J. Lyly [ ARK , hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings , HARK , And Phoebus ' gins arise , His steeds to water at ...
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... play withal . Cor . The Queen of Love had been excused Bequeathing , bequeathing My Phyllida the golden ball . Phyl . Yonder comes my mother , Corydon , Whither shall I fly ? Cor . Under yonder beech , my lovely one , While she passeth ...
... play withal . Cor . The Queen of Love had been excused Bequeathing , bequeathing My Phyllida the golden ball . Phyl . Yonder comes my mother , Corydon , Whither shall I fly ? Cor . Under yonder beech , my lovely one , While she passeth ...
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... play . Kissing sometimes these purple ports of death . The winds all silent are , And Phoebus in his chair Ensaffroning sea and air Makes vanish every star : Night like a drunkard reels Beyond the hills , to shun his flaming wheels ...
... play . Kissing sometimes these purple ports of death . The winds all silent are , And Phoebus in his chair Ensaffroning sea and air Makes vanish every star : Night like a drunkard reels Beyond the hills , to shun his flaming wheels ...
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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