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... keep . Her face was full of woe But such a woe ( believe me ) as wins more hearts Than Mirth can do with her enticing arts . Sorrow was there made fair And Passion wise ; tears a delightful thing ; Silence , beyond all speech , and ...
... keep . Her face was full of woe But such a woe ( believe me ) as wins more hearts Than Mirth can do with her enticing arts . Sorrow was there made fair And Passion wise ; tears a delightful thing ; Silence , beyond all speech , and ...
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... others do excel ; ) And ye likewise , which keep the rushy lake , Where none do fishes take ; Bind up the locks the which hang scatter'd light , 1 At Youghall , as before . And in his waters , which your mirror make , EDMUND SPENSER 133.
... others do excel ; ) And ye likewise , which keep the rushy lake , Where none do fishes take ; Bind up the locks the which hang scatter'd light , 1 At Youghall , as before . And in his waters , which your mirror make , EDMUND SPENSER 133.
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... keep the deer , That on the hoary mountain use to tower , And the wild wolves , which seek them to devour , steel darts do chase from coming near ; With your Be also present here , To help to deck her , and to help to sing , That all ...
... keep the deer , That on the hoary mountain use to tower , And the wild wolves , which seek them to devour , steel darts do chase from coming near ; With your Be also present here , To help to deck her , and to help to sing , That all ...
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... keep , That sacred Peace may in assurance reign , And timely Sleep , when it is time to sleep , May pour his limbs forth on your pleasant plain : The whiles an hundred little winged Loves , Like divers feathered doves , Shall fly and ...
... keep , That sacred Peace may in assurance reign , And timely Sleep , when it is time to sleep , May pour his limbs forth on your pleasant plain : The whiles an hundred little winged Loves , Like divers feathered doves , Shall fly and ...
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... keeps the key of Nature's chiefest treasure ? Το you ! to you ! all song of praise is due : Only for you , the heaven forgat all measure . Who hath the lips , where Wit in fairness reigneth ? Who womankind at once both decks and ...
... keeps the key of Nature's chiefest treasure ? Το you ! to you ! all song of praise is due : Only for you , the heaven forgat all measure . Who hath the lips , where Wit in fairness reigneth ? Who womankind at once both decks and ...
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A Book of English Love Poems: Chosen Out of Poets From Wyatt to Arnold ... Edward Hutton No preview available - 2017 |
A Book of English Love Poems: Chosen Out of Poets from Wyatt to Arnold Edward Hutton No preview available - 2016 |
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Airs by Thomas awake beams beauty beauty's BEN JONSON birds blush Book of Airs bosom bower breast breath bright brow chaste cheeks dare dear death delight doth dream echo ring EDMUND SPENSER eyes face fair Samela fear fire flame flowers golden goodly grace hair hand hath hear heart heaven heavenly Heigh honour Hymen JOHN DRYDEN kiss lady light lips live look love thee Love's lovers lute maid MICHAEL DRAYTON never night numbers o'er pain passion pity pleasure praise is due ROBERT HERRICK rose SAMUEL DANIEL Say nay shine sigh sing SIR JOHN SUCKLING SIR PHILIP SIDNEY sleep smiles soft song of praise sonnets sorrow soul stars stay sweet tears tell thine THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAREW THOMAS LODGE thou art thoughts unto verse voice WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR wanton weep WILLIAM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wilt thou leave wings woods may answer
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Page 150 - The floating clouds their state. shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 50 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Page 107 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 52 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 47 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 178 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.
Page 185 - BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 49 - 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; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd...
Page 75 - Sweet air blow soft, mount larks aloft To give my Love good-morrow ! Wings from the wind to please her mind Notes from the lark I'll borrow ; Bird prune thy wing, nightingale sing, To give my Love good-morrow ; To give my Love good-morrow Notes from them both I'll borrow.
Page 12 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death : jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.