Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, Volume 3H. Washbourne, 1845 - English poetry |
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... Will is led by fond desire , There Reason were as good be still , As speaking , kindle greater fire . For where Desire doth bear the sway , The heart must rule , the head obey . What boots the cunning pilot's skill , To tell which 10.
... Will is led by fond desire , There Reason were as good be still , As speaking , kindle greater fire . For where Desire doth bear the sway , The heart must rule , the head obey . What boots the cunning pilot's skill , To tell which 10.
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... doth reign . An Altar and Sacrifice to Disdain , for freeing him from Love . My Muse , by thee restored to life , To thee , Disdain , this altar rears ; Whereon she offers causeless strife , Self - spending sighs , and bootless tears ...
... doth reign . An Altar and Sacrifice to Disdain , for freeing him from Love . My Muse , by thee restored to life , To thee , Disdain , this altar rears ; Whereon she offers causeless strife , Self - spending sighs , and bootless tears ...
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... doth start . She runs not now , she shoots no more ; Away she throws both shafts and bow : She seeks for that she shunn'd before , She thinks the shepherd's haste too slow . Though mountains meet not , lovers may , So others do , and so ...
... doth start . She runs not now , she shoots no more ; Away she throws both shafts and bow : She seeks for that she shunn'd before , She thinks the shepherd's haste too slow . Though mountains meet not , lovers may , So others do , and so ...
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... doth in highest notes appear , As any challeng'd echo clear : But when she doth of mourning speak , E'en with her sighs the strings do break . And as her lute doth live or die , Led by her passions , so must I : For when of pleasure she ...
... doth in highest notes appear , As any challeng'd echo clear : But when she doth of mourning speak , E'en with her sighs the strings do break . And as her lute doth live or die , Led by her passions , so must I : For when of pleasure she ...
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... doth world perplex . It is a face of death that smiles , Pleasing , though it kill the whiles , Where death and love , in pretty wiles , Each other mutually beguiles . It is fair beauty's freshest youth : It is the feigned Elysium's ...
... doth world perplex . It is a face of death that smiles , Pleasing , though it kill the whiles , Where death and love , in pretty wiles , Each other mutually beguiles . It is fair beauty's freshest youth : It is the feigned Elysium's ...
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