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... lives , Thine all the grace that wit and beauty 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 ...
... lives , Thine all the grace that wit and beauty 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 ...
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... live and love , then die as they ! Too weak for fame , too slight for war's stern rule , Fate bids me learn alone in Love's soft school . Roam as thou wilt , then , o'er Ionia's lands ; Or where Pactolus rolls his golden sands ; Tread ...
... live and love , then die as they ! Too weak for fame , too slight for war's stern rule , Fate bids me learn alone in Love's soft school . Roam as thou wilt , then , o'er Ionia's lands ; Or where Pactolus rolls his golden sands ; Tread ...
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... live to weep like this for me , Then were death welcome , wheresoe'er it be . But , ah ! I fear lest other loves arise , My name forgot , and spurn'd my obsequies- Bidding thee dry the tears that fall so fast , True thou might be , yet ...
... live to weep like this for me , Then were death welcome , wheresoe'er it be . But , ah ! I fear lest other loves arise , My name forgot , and spurn'd my obsequies- Bidding thee dry the tears that fall so fast , True thou might be , yet ...
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... live unwed , ONCE Love made his peace , and baffled me instead . If face so fair as thine on earth remain , Then all Jove's former loves , methinks , were vain ; With rich light locks , slim hand , and figure tall , My love , like Juno ...
... live unwed , ONCE Love made his peace , and baffled me instead . If face so fair as thine on earth remain , Then all Jove's former loves , methinks , were vain ; With rich light locks , slim hand , and figure tall , My love , like Juno ...
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... live once more . Then thou hast cousins , kinsmen for a day , Who kiss and fondle thee , as cousins may ! E'en the dumb portraits , e'en my rival's name , E'en cradled babes my jealousy inflame ; Thy sister's kiss , thy mother's - even ...
... live once more . Then thou hast cousins , kinsmen for a day , Who kiss and fondle thee , as cousins may ! E'en the dumb portraits , e'en my rival's name , E'en cradled babes my jealousy inflame ; Thy sister's kiss , thy mother's - even ...
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