The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... 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 hence , shadows , that do keep ...
... 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 hence , shadows , that do keep ...
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... sleeping ! Therefore awake ! make haste , I say , And let us , without staying , All in our gowns of green so gay Into the Park a - Maying ! SEE My Fair A - Field EE where my Love a - Maying goes With sweet dame Flora sporting ! She ...
... sleeping ! Therefore awake ! make haste , I say , And let us , without staying , All in our gowns of green so gay Into the Park a - Maying ! SEE My Fair A - Field EE where my Love a - Maying goes With sweet dame Flora sporting ! She ...
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... sleeping ! Therefore awake ! make haste , I say , And let us , without staying , All in our gowns of green so gay Into the Park a - Maying ! SEE My Fair A - Field EE where my Love a - Maying goes With sweet dame Flora sporting ! She ...
... sleeping ! Therefore awake ! make haste , I say , And let us , without staying , All in our gowns of green so gay Into the Park a - Maying ! SEE My Fair A - Field EE where my Love a - Maying goes With sweet dame Flora sporting ! She ...
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... sleep , then percheth he With pretty flight , And makes his pillow of my knee The livelong night . Strike I my lute , he tunes the string ; His music plays if so I sing ; He lends me every lovely thing , Yet cruel he my heart doth sting ...
... sleep , then percheth he With pretty flight , And makes his pillow of my knee The livelong night . Strike I my lute , he tunes the string ; His music plays if so I sing ; He lends me every lovely thing , Yet cruel he my heart doth sting ...
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... sleeps within their pretty shrine ; And if I look the boy will lower , And from their orbs shoot shafts divine . Love works thy heart within his fire , And in my tears doth firm the same ; And if I tempt it will retire , And of my ...
... sleeps within their pretty shrine ; And if I look the boy will lower , And from their orbs shoot shafts divine . Love works thy heart within his fire , And in my tears doth firm the same ; And if I tempt it will retire , And of my ...
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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