English Verse: The early lyrics to ShakespeareWilliam Peacock Oxford University Press, 1928 - American poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 21
Page xii
... Beauty Bathing The Wood - man's Walk 247 247 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , 1554-1585- Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella 251 Songs from Astrophel and Stella 256 Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis . 259 The Bargain 260 Dirge 261 • Philomela 262 The ...
... Beauty Bathing The Wood - man's Walk 247 247 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , 1554-1585- Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella 251 Songs from Astrophel and Stella 256 Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis . 259 The Bargain 260 Dirge 261 • Philomela 262 The ...
Page 221
... thy lifull heat not feruent be For feare of burning her sunshyny face , Her beauty to disgrace . O fayrest Phoebus , father of the Muse , lifull ] giving or bestowing life . If euer I did honour thee aright , Or sing EDMUND SPENSER 221.
... thy lifull heat not feruent be For feare of burning her sunshyny face , Her beauty to disgrace . O fayrest Phoebus , father of the Muse , lifull ] giving or bestowing life . If euer I did honour thee aright , Or sing EDMUND SPENSER 221.
Page 224
... beauty of her liuely spright , Garnisht with heauenly guifts of high degree , Much more then would ye wonder at that sight , And stand astonisht lyke to those which red Medusaes mazeful hed . There dwels sweet loue and constant chastity ...
... beauty of her liuely spright , Garnisht with heauenly guifts of high degree , Much more then would ye wonder at that sight , And stand astonisht lyke to those which red Medusaes mazeful hed . There dwels sweet loue and constant chastity ...
Page 227
... beauty , glorious lampe of loue That all the host of heauen in rankes doost lead , And guydest louers through the nightes dread , How chearefully thou lookest from aboue , And seemst to laugh atweene thy twinkling light As ioying in the ...
... beauty , glorious lampe of loue That all the host of heauen in rankes doost lead , And guydest louers through the nightes dread , How chearefully thou lookest from aboue , And seemst to laugh atweene thy twinkling light As ioying in the ...
Page 246
... blind did rise . O Loue ! has shee done this to Thee ? What shall ( Alas ! ) become of mee ? cristall ] crystal , fairness . ANTHONY MUNDAY ( SHEPHERD TONY ) 1553-1633 BEAUTY BATHING England's 246 JOHN LYLY Cupid and Campaspe.
... blind did rise . O Loue ! has shee done this to Thee ? What shall ( Alas ! ) become of mee ? cristall ] crystal , fairness . ANTHONY MUNDAY ( SHEPHERD TONY ) 1553-1633 BEAUTY BATHING England's 246 JOHN LYLY Cupid and Campaspe.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adew loue anon Antilochus Antony beauty behold bloud brest brond Caesar Chauntecleer Coridon coude courtepy deare death doth drede dremes earth eccho ring euen euery eyes face faire farre fayre feare felawe flowers gaue giue gold goodly grace grone hand Harfleur hart hath haue heare heart heauen heauenly heigh herte Hippodames holy honour Ioue ioyes king Lady Macbeth leaue limbeck liue Lord loue louely Lullaby lyke mind mordred moue mynde neuer night nought ouer pleasure QUEEN MAB quod scho seith selfe seyde seye shal shee Shepheards shew sholde shyning sight siluer sing sith sleep song sonne sorrow soule speke spyce Sunne sweet swich thay thee ther theyr thing thou art thought toun trewely tyme un-to unto vnto vpon whan whyl whyt wight wolde wyde youth
Popular passages
Page 421 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought...
Page 381 - No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal'd thee for herself...
Page 3 - Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, 10 (So priketh hem nature in hir corages): Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
Page 382 - And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 420 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 360 - No matter where ; — of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.
Page 400 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange, Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Page 382 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 425 - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days.
Page 349 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.