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... speaking , in SHAKESPEARE and the Elizabethan dramatists , but lyrics in abundance . The difference between these lyrics and our songs is manifest : the one being a simple , unstudied expression of thought , sentiment , or passion ; the ...
... speaking , in SHAKESPEARE and the Elizabethan dramatists , but lyrics in abundance . The difference between these lyrics and our songs is manifest : the one being a simple , unstudied expression of thought , sentiment , or passion ; the ...
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... speak , at all implicated in what is going forward in the poem ; but deals out the dialogue like an indifferent bystander , seeking only to adjust it to the necessities of the actors . He is above the struggle and turmoil of the battle ...
... speak , at all implicated in what is going forward in the poem ; but deals out the dialogue like an indifferent bystander , seeking only to adjust it to the necessities of the actors . He is above the struggle and turmoil of the battle ...
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... speak for themselves , without note or comment from me . The text is as pure as I could make it . I dare not flatter myself , however , that it is absolutely pure , so much have the old poets been tampered with by those who have edited ...
... speak for themselves , without note or comment from me . The text is as pure as I could make it . I dare not flatter myself , however , that it is absolutely pure , so much have the old poets been tampered with by those who have edited ...
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... speak my moan , Sith naught doth say the heart of stone . III . Why thus , my love , so kind bespeak Sweet lip , sweet eye , sweet blushing cheek , Yet not a heart to save my pain ? O Venus , take thy gifts again ! Make not so fair to ...
... speak my moan , Sith naught doth say the heart of stone . III . Why thus , my love , so kind bespeak Sweet lip , sweet eye , sweet blushing cheek , Yet not a heart to save my pain ? O Venus , take thy gifts again ! Make not so fair to ...
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... speak , Even with her fighs the ftrings do break . II . And as her lute doth live or die , Led by her paffions , so muft I : For when of pleasure he doth fing , My thoughts enjoy a sudden spring : But if he do of sorrow speak , Even ...
... speak , Even with her fighs the ftrings do break . II . And as her lute doth live or die , Led by her paffions , so muft I : For when of pleasure he doth fing , My thoughts enjoy a sudden spring : But if he do of sorrow speak , Even ...
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Page 70 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 154 - That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I : And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a...
Page 59 - Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Page 104 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 106 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 114 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 116 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting; The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may...
Page 24 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 161 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 28 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.