Routledge's wedding-day book [selections from Engl. poetry] by C.A.M. Burdett |
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... Scotch Song : There is no love - broker in the world can more pre- vail in man's commendation with women than report of valour . Shakespeare ( Twelfth Night ) . April . 18949- The fields breathe sweet , the daisies 72 March 31 .
... Scotch Song : There is no love - broker in the world can more pre- vail in man's commendation with women than report of valour . Shakespeare ( Twelfth Night ) . April . 18949- The fields breathe sweet , the daisies 72 March 31 .
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... Scotch Song . She's better than she's bonnie . June 15 . I met her at a country ball , Proverb . There , when the sound of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet to that old hall Of hands across and down the middle . Winthrop M. Praed ...
... Scotch Song . She's better than she's bonnie . June 15 . I met her at a country ball , Proverb . There , when the sound of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet to that old hall Of hands across and down the middle . Winthrop M. Praed ...
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... Scotch Song . To me more dear , congenial to my heart , One native charm than all the gloss of art . June 18 . Goldsmith . As long as this harp can be wakened to love , And that eye its divine inspiration shall be , They may talk as ...
... Scotch Song . To me more dear , congenial to my heart , One native charm than all the gloss of art . June 18 . Goldsmith . As long as this harp can be wakened to love , And that eye its divine inspiration shall be , They may talk as ...
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... Scotch Song . Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite , No sky is heavy if the heart be light . June 26 . Churchill . That clouded silk becomes you much , I wonder how you meet with such ; And you've a charming taste in dress ...
... Scotch Song . Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite , No sky is heavy if the heart be light . June 26 . Churchill . That clouded silk becomes you much , I wonder how you meet with such ; And you've a charming taste in dress ...
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... Scotch Song . What she wills to do or say Seems wisest , virtuousest , discreetest , best . July 14 . A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food , Milton For transient sorrows , simple wiles , ( Paradise Lost ) ...
... Scotch Song . What she wills to do or say Seems wisest , virtuousest , discreetest , best . July 14 . A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food , Milton For transient sorrows , simple wiles , ( Paradise Lost ) ...
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Anonymous April aught August August 29 beauty bliss Bowring breath brow Byron charm Coventry Patmore Cowper Crabbe dear December 12 December 23 delight doth E. B. Browning e'er earth eyes face fair faith February February 18 flower frown Garrick gentle Gentlemen of Verona grace grief hand happy hath heart heaven husband January January 18 January 20 July June kiss Lady live Longfellow Song Longfellow The Spanish look love thee Love's Labour's Lost Lyttelton March mind Moore ne'er never night November November 23 obey October 23 October 24 on't pleasure Pope Proverb Scotch Song September September 21 Shakespeare Cymbeline Shakespeare King Henry Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Shakespeare Taming Shakespeare Two Gentlemen Shelley Shrew smile Song of Hiawatha soul Spanish Student Spenser sweet tender There's thine Thomas Lodge Thomas Sylvestre thou art thro timid thread trans true love Westland Marston wife woman
Popular passages
Page 236 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Page 208 - Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband...
Page 168 - Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Page 168 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 144 - From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 104 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 142 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 205 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade; Die to themselves.
Page 144 - Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Page 88 - Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty, Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare...