The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... roses spread ; The nightingales thy coming each - where sing ; Make an eternal Spring ! Give life to this dark world which lieth dead ; Spread forth thy golden hair In larger locks than thou wast wont before , And emperor - like decore ...
... roses spread ; The nightingales thy coming each - where sing ; Make an eternal Spring ! Give life to this dark world which lieth dead ; Spread forth thy golden hair In larger locks than thou wast wont before , And emperor - like decore ...
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... rose ; The hue which thou so carefully dost nourish , Yet which at length thou must be forced to lose . When thou , surcharged with burthen of thy years , Shalt bend thy wrinkles homeward to the earth , And that , in Beauty's Lease ...
... rose ; The hue which thou so carefully dost nourish , Yet which at length thou must be forced to lose . When thou , surcharged with burthen of thy years , Shalt bend thy wrinkles homeward to the earth , And that , in Beauty's Lease ...
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... the Spring And wait upon her . She has virgins many , Fresh and fair ; Yet you are More sweet than any . You're the maiden posies , And so graced To be placed ' Fore damask roses . 24 . Yet , though thus respected , By - 18 THE BOOK OF.
... the Spring And wait upon her . She has virgins many , Fresh and fair ; Yet you are More sweet than any . You're the maiden posies , And so graced To be placed ' Fore damask roses . 24 . Yet , though thus respected , By - 18 THE BOOK OF.
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... Rose at the well - dissembled fly ; There stood my friend , with patient skill Attending of his trembling quill . Already were the eaves possess'd With the swift pilgrim's daubèd nest ; The groves already did rejoice In Philomel's ...
... Rose at the well - dissembled fly ; There stood my friend , with patient skill Attending of his trembling quill . Already were the eaves possess'd With the swift pilgrim's daubèd nest ; The groves already did rejoice In Philomel's ...
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... roses . See the clear sun , the world's bright eye , In at our window peeping . Lo , how he blusheth to espy Us idle wenches sleeping ! Therefore awake ! make haste , I say , And let us , without staying , All in our gowns of green so ...
... roses . See the clear sun , the world's bright eye , In at our window peeping . Lo , how he blusheth to espy Us idle wenches sleeping ! Therefore awake ! make haste , I say , And let us , without staying , All in our gowns of green so ...
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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