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... thou wast wont before , And emperor - like decore With diadem of pearl thy temples fair : Chase hence the ugly night ... thou two sweeter eyes Shalt see than those which by Penèus ' streams Did once thy heart surprise . Nay , suns ...
... thou wast wont before , And emperor - like decore With diadem of pearl thy temples fair : Chase hence the ugly night ... thou two sweeter eyes Shalt see than those which by Penèus ' streams Did once thy heart surprise . Nay , suns ...
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... 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 expired , appears The ...
... 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 expired , appears The ...
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William Stanley Braithwaite. 19 . To Aurora IF thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm , And dost prejudge thy bliss , and spoil my rest ; Then thou would'st melt the ice out of thy breast And thy relenting heart would kindly warm . O if ...
William Stanley Braithwaite. 19 . To Aurora IF thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm , And dost prejudge thy bliss , and spoil my rest ; Then thou would'st melt the ice out of thy breast And thy relenting heart would kindly warm . O if ...
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... 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 labourest yet to nestle thee , And think'st by hovering here to get a part In a forbidden or ...
... 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 labourest yet to nestle thee , And think'st by hovering here to get a part In a forbidden or ...
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William Stanley Braithwaite. 57 . Wooing Stuff FAINT Amorist , what ! dost thou think To taste love's honey , and not drink One dram of gall ? or to devour A world of sweet and taste no sour ? Dost thou ever think to enter The Elysian ...
William Stanley Braithwaite. 57 . Wooing Stuff FAINT Amorist , what ! dost thou think To taste love's honey , and not drink One dram of gall ? or to devour A world of sweet and taste no sour ? Dost thou ever think to enter The Elysian ...
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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