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... pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Methought I walked still to and fro , And from her company I could not go— But when I waked it was not so : In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Therefore my hart is surely pyght Of her alone ...
... pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Methought I walked still to and fro , And from her company I could not go— But when I waked it was not so : In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Therefore my hart is surely pyght Of her alone ...
Page 98
... pleasure Lives in measure , Which if men forsake , Blinded they into folly run and grief for pleasure take . But my vain Hopes , proud of their new - 98 ANONYMOUS.
... pleasure Lives in measure , Which if men forsake , Blinded they into folly run and grief for pleasure take . But my vain Hopes , proud of their new - 98 ANONYMOUS.
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... pleasure without speech ; And where strange dreams in a tumultuous sleep Make the shut eyes of stricken spirits weep ; And with each face thou sawest the shadow on each , Seeing as men sow men reap . O sleepless heart and sombre soul ...
... pleasure without speech ; And where strange dreams in a tumultuous sleep Make the shut eyes of stricken spirits weep ; And with each face thou sawest the shadow on each , Seeing as men sow men reap . O sleepless heart and sombre soul ...
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50 | 73 |
Alexander Montgomerie b 1540 d | 80 |
Fulke Greville Lord Brooke b 1554 | 145 |
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 Arthur Quiller-Couch,Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch No preview available - 1966 |
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