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... gives : These make me thine - thine ever will I be , Could'st thou but learn to hate frivolity . III . Qualis Thesea . LIKE Ariadne on the lonely shore , When love had fled , and Theseus was no more ; As fair Andromeda , when , dangers ...
... gives : These make me thine - thine ever will I be , Could'st thou but learn to hate frivolity . III . Qualis Thesea . LIKE Ariadne on the lonely shore , When love had fled , and Theseus was no more ; As fair Andromeda , when , dangers ...
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... Give but the smallest clue to thy sad fate , Then wilt thou , fallen from thy high estate , A byword be : then o'er thy sorrows moan- Ask help in vain ; I cannot cure my own . Till we , poor lovers , sympathetic grow , And weep together ...
... Give but the smallest clue to thy sad fate , Then wilt thou , fallen from thy high estate , A byword be : then o'er thy sorrows moan- Ask help in vain ; I cannot cure my own . Till we , poor lovers , sympathetic grow , And weep together ...
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... give thee ease to tell her name . X. O jocunda quies . HOW sweet the dawn of love , when I stood by And mark'd the tear - drop trembling in thine eye ! Oh ! that these prayers of mine had aught of power , Or mem❜ry could recall that ...
... give thee ease to tell her name . X. O jocunda quies . HOW sweet the dawn of love , when I stood by And mark'd the tear - drop trembling in thine eye ! Oh ! that these prayers of mine had aught of power , Or mem❜ry could recall that ...
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... give back again . Let but a whisper pierce some tiny chink , Till in her tender ears love's accents sink , Then be she stubborn yet as Etna's stone , Or hard as steel that swart Chalybians own , Yet the warm tear , I know , will dim her ...
... give back again . Let but a whisper pierce some tiny chink , Till in her tender ears love's accents sink , Then be she stubborn yet as Etna's stone , Or hard as steel that swart Chalybians own , Yet the warm tear , I know , will dim her ...
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... give thee cause for jealous fears , Or dim those lustrous eyes with genuine tears . Is it the changes of my face are slow , And love's warm token speaks not on my brow ? Ye trees , that love , bear witness , I beseech ! Pine dear to Pan ...
... give thee cause for jealous fears , Or dim those lustrous eyes with genuine tears . Is it the changes of my face are slow , And love's warm token speaks not on my brow ? Ye trees , that love , bear witness , I beseech ! Pine dear to Pan ...
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