Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan AgeArthur Henry Bullen |
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Page xi
... bright , The night want shade , the dead men graves ; The April flowers and leaf and tree , Before I false my faith to thee . " Desportes ' sonnet is a bundle of dry conceits ; Lodge's song is musical as a running brook . Lodge's ...
... bright , The night want shade , the dead men graves ; The April flowers and leaf and tree , Before I false my faith to thee . " Desportes ' sonnet is a bundle of dry conceits ; Lodge's song is musical as a running brook . Lodge's ...
Page xiii
... bright soul of the sad year , " is no empty rhetorical appeal , but a solemn supplication ; and those pathetic stanzas , " Adieu ; farewell , earth's bliss , " must have had strange significance at a time when on every side the death ...
... bright soul of the sad year , " is no empty rhetorical appeal , but a solemn supplication ; and those pathetic stanzas , " Adieu ; farewell , earth's bliss , " must have had strange significance at a time when on every side the death ...
Page xxvii
... bright ( John Fletcher ) O fair sweet goddess ! queen of loves ( John Fletcher ) . O fly , my soul ! what hangs upon ( Shirley ) O for a bowl of fat canary ( Middleton ? ) O gentle Love , ungentle for thy deed ( Peele ) O , how my lungs ...
... bright ( John Fletcher ) O fair sweet goddess ! queen of loves ( John Fletcher ) . O fly , my soul ! what hangs upon ( Shirley ) O for a bowl of fat canary ( Middleton ? ) O gentle Love , ungentle for thy deed ( Peele ) O , how my lungs ...
Page 12
... Bright stars a - piece her eyes do hold , My Daphne's brow enthrones the graces , My Daphne's beauty stains all faces ; On Daphne's cheek grow rose and cherry , On Daphne's lip a sweeter berry ; Daphne's snowy hand but touched does melt ...
... Bright stars a - piece her eyes do hold , My Daphne's brow enthrones the graces , My Daphne's beauty stains all faces ; On Daphne's cheek grow rose and cherry , On Daphne's lip a sweeter berry ; Daphne's snowy hand but touched does melt ...
Page 14
... bright fire , Laurels bind about his lyre , A Daphnean coronet for his head , The Muses dance about his bed ; When on his ravishing lute he plays , Strew his temple round with bays . Io , pæans let us sing To the glittering Delian king ...
... bright fire , Laurels bind about his lyre , A Daphnean coronet for his head , The Muses dance about his bed ; When on his ravishing lute he plays , Strew his temple round with bays . Io , pæans let us sing To the glittering Delian king ...
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Anthony Munday arms arrows beauty bel ami Ben Jonson birds bless bliss bright chaste cheeks Chorus Cuckoo Cupid dance dead death delight dong doth drink eyes face fair fairy fancy fear fire flowers fool Gipsy golden golden slumbers grace green grief Hark haste hath heart heaven Hecate Heigh honour Hymen JAMES SHIRLEY'S John Fletcher Jonson king kiss lady lass Love's lovers Luminalia lusty Lyly's lyrical maid Maid's Metamorphosis Masque merrily merry mistress N'oserez Nathaniel Field never Nice Valour night nymph Phillis Phoebe pity play pleasure poem pretty queen Robert Greene Robin Hood rose Shakespeare shepherd shine sigh sing sleep smile song sorrow soul spring stay swain sweet tears thee Thetis thing THOMAS Thomas Lodge thou art tree unto Venus virgins vowed wanton weep Whilst wind wings Witch youth