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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... 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.
... 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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... head to rest , Such a weight as no burthen was . * Long their fix'd eyes to heaven bent Unchanged , they did never move , As if so great and pure a love No glass but it could represent . When with a sweet though troubled look She first ...
... head to rest , Such a weight as no burthen was . * Long their fix'd eyes to heaven bent Unchanged , they did never move , As if so great and pure a love No glass but it could represent . When with a sweet though troubled look She first ...
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... voices tear : Or when the sea , if stopt his course he finds , With broken murmurs thinks weak shores to fear , Scorning such sandy cords his proud head binds : More than where rivers in the summer ray , Through 44 REIGN OF JAMES I.
... voices tear : Or when the sea , if stopt his course he finds , With broken murmurs thinks weak shores to fear , Scorning such sandy cords his proud head binds : More than where rivers in the summer ray , Through 44 REIGN OF JAMES I.
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... paramours , Let his shrill trumpet , with her silver blast , Of fair Eclecta and her spousal bed Be the sweet pipe , and smooth encomiast ; VOL . III . E But my green Muse , hiding her younger head Under GILES FLETCHER . 49.
... paramours , Let his shrill trumpet , with her silver blast , Of fair Eclecta and her spousal bed Be the sweet pipe , and smooth encomiast ; VOL . III . E But my green Muse , hiding her younger head Under GILES FLETCHER . 49.
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... head Under old Chamus ' flaggy banks , that spread Their willow locks abroad , and all the day With their own watery shadows wanton play , Dares not those high amours and love - sick songs assay . SIR JOHN BEAUMONT , DESCENDED of an ...
... head Under old Chamus ' flaggy banks , that spread Their willow locks abroad , and all the day With their own watery shadows wanton play , Dares not those high amours and love - sick songs assay . SIR JOHN BEAUMONT , DESCENDED of an ...
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