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... fair one's heart do ye combine , Bid her proud cheek grow paler yet than mine ; Then will I own in ye the power that dwells To draw the skies and streams with Colchian spells . Ye , too , who bid me stop when all too late , Seek ...
... fair one's heart do ye combine , Bid her proud cheek grow paler yet than mine ; Then will I own in ye the power that dwells To draw the skies and streams with Colchian spells . Ye , too , who bid me stop when all too late , Seek ...
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... fair . How can thy love for me elsewhere be flown ? Then dress to please but one , and one alone ; Thy lips hath Phoebus touch'd with all his fire , For thee Calliope attunes her lyre . Thine is the charm in winning words that lives ...
... fair . How can thy love for me elsewhere be flown ? Then dress to please but one , and one alone ; Thy lips hath Phoebus touch'd with all his fire , For thee Calliope attunes her lyre . Thine is the charm in winning words that lives ...
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... fair , And gently sought awhile to lay me there . Hard were the Gods that my poor senses prest , For love and wine alternate rack'd my breast ; These bid me raise her lightly in my arms , To kiss my Cynthia's all unconscious charms ...
... fair , And gently sought awhile to lay me there . Hard were the Gods that my poor senses prest , For love and wine alternate rack'd my breast ; These bid me raise her lightly in my arms , To kiss my Cynthia's all unconscious charms ...
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... fair , Or young Hermione beyond compare ; Praise all the charms that age of beauty bore , But with my Cynthia let them vie no more ; Still less compared with forms of lesser grace , Would a stern judge award her second place . Think not ...
... fair , Or young Hermione beyond compare ; Praise all the charms that age of beauty bore , But with my Cynthia let them vie no more ; Still less compared with forms of lesser grace , Would a stern judge award her second place . Think not ...
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... shaft rankling in thy bones , Or quail before the fair one's angry tones ! None of Love's victims flit too far away , For him to pull them back in wanton play . Nor think that all is thine , once win the 12 [ BOOK I. PROPERTIUS .
... shaft rankling in thy bones , Or quail before the fair one's angry tones ! None of Love's victims flit too far away , For him to pull them back in wanton play . Nor think that all is thine , once win the 12 [ BOOK I. PROPERTIUS .
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arms bade beauty beneath Bishop bliss Boötes bore Brasenose College breast brow Cæsar Callimachus Cambridge canst charm Cheltenham College Church Church of England Crown 8vo Cynthia dark death Dost E'en e'er Edward Meyrick Goulburn eyes fair fall false fame fate fear fire golden hair hear heart Heaven Henry Parry Liddon Holy John Henry Blunt Jove late Fellow Lecturer life's London Lord love's lovers lyre maid maidens mark'd Merton College methinks Muses ne'er never night nought o'er once Oxford Phoebus poor prayers Propertius roam Roman Rome Sackville College Second Edition Sermons shade shame shore shrine sing sleep Small 8vo soft song spurn stern stream tale Tarpeia tears tell thee thine thou art thou wilt throng tomb Trinity College Twas Venus wave weary weep wilt thou wine woo'd wouldst wrath yield yore
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