The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... tears . Ask me why this flower does show So yellow - green , and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending , [ yet it doth not break ] ? I will answer : - -These discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . T. Carew or R ...
... tears . Ask me why this flower does show So yellow - green , and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending , [ yet it doth not break ] ? I will answer : - -These discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . T. Carew or R ...
Page 38
... fie ! now would she cry ; Tereu , Tereu ! by and by ; That to hear her so complain Scarce I could from tears refrain ; For her griefs so lively shown Made me think upon mine own . 42 . Ah ! thought I , thou mourn'st in 38 THE BOOK OF.
... fie ! now would she cry ; Tereu , Tereu ! by and by ; That to hear her so complain Scarce I could from tears refrain ; For her griefs so lively shown Made me think upon mine own . 42 . Ah ! thought I , thou mourn'st in 38 THE BOOK OF.
Page 45
... tears how firm my love is fixed ; And , Philomel , report my timourous fears , And , Echo , sound my heigh - ho's in her ears : But if she ask if I for love will die , Tell her , " Good faith , good faith , good faith , not I ! " Anon ...
... tears how firm my love is fixed ; And , Philomel , report my timourous fears , And , Echo , sound my heigh - ho's in her ears : But if she ask if I for love will die , Tell her , " Good faith , good faith , good faith , not I ! " Anon ...
Page 75
... tears I shed Make dead The brands would me devour , I should consume to nought Through thought Of thy fair shining eye , Thy cheeks , thy pleasing smiles , The wiles That forced my heart to die ; Thy grace , thy face , the part Where ...
... tears I shed Make dead The brands would me devour , I should consume to nought Through thought Of thy fair shining eye , Thy cheeks , thy pleasing smiles , The wiles That forced my heart to die ; Thy grace , thy face , the part Where ...
Page 79
... tears doth firm the same ; And if I tempt it will retire , And of my plaints doth make a game . Love , let me cull her choicest flowers ; And pity me , and calm her eye ; Make soft her heart , dissolve her lowers ; Then will I praise ...
... tears doth firm the same ; And if I tempt it will retire , And of my plaints doth make a game . Love , let me cull her choicest flowers ; And pity me , and calm her eye ; Make soft her heart , dissolve her lowers ; Then will I praise ...
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