The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... thee . Phyl . Here are cherries ripe for my Corydon ; Eat them for my sake . Cor . Here's my oaten pipe , my lovely one , Sport for thee to make . Phyl . Here are threads , my true love , fine as silk , To knit thee , to knit thee , A ...
... thee . Phyl . Here are cherries ripe for my Corydon ; Eat them for my sake . Cor . Here's my oaten pipe , my lovely one , Sport for thee to make . Phyl . Here are threads , my true love , fine as silk , To knit thee , to knit thee , A ...
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... thee from thy thorn : Vow , alack , for youth unmeet ; Youth so apt to pluck a sweet . Do not call it sin in me , That I am forsworn for thee ; Thou for whom Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiope were ; And deny himself for Jove ...
... thee from thy thorn : Vow , alack , for youth unmeet ; Youth so apt to pluck a sweet . Do not call it sin in me , That I am forsworn for thee ; Thou for whom Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiope were ; And deny himself for Jove ...
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... thee to this height to raise , And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough , Little think'st thou ― That it will freeze anon , and that I shall To - morrow find thee fall'n , or not at all . Little think'st thou , poor heart , That ...
... thee to this height to raise , And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough , Little think'st thou ― That it will freeze anon , and that I shall To - morrow find thee fall'n , or not at all . Little think'st thou , poor heart , That ...
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... thee for one ? Practice may make her know some other part , But take my word , she doth not know a heart . Meet me in London , then , Twenty days hence , and thou shalt see Me fresher and more fat , by being with men , Than if I had ...
... thee for one ? Practice may make her know some other part , But take my word , she doth not know a heart . Meet me in London , then , Twenty days hence , and thou shalt see Me fresher and more fat , by being with men , Than if I had ...
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... thee , Ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee : King Pandion he is dead , All thy friends are lapp'd in lead ; All thy fellow birds do sing Careless of thy sorrowing : Even so , poor bird , like thee , None alive will pity me . R ...
... thee , Ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee : King Pandion he is dead , All thy friends are lapp'd in lead ; All thy fellow birds do sing Careless of thy sorrowing : Even so , poor bird , like thee , None alive will pity me . R ...
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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