Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
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... grave . But had I as many hearts as hairs , As many loves as love has fears , As many lives as years have hours , They should be all and only yours . XXIV . Unknown " WHAT WIGHT HE LOVED . " SHALL I tell you whom I love ? Hearken then ...
... grave . But had I as many hearts as hairs , As many loves as love has fears , As many lives as years have hours , They should be all and only yours . XXIV . Unknown " WHAT WIGHT HE LOVED . " SHALL I tell you whom I love ? Hearken then ...
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... birthday more a winner , Digest his thirty - thousandth dinner ; Walk to his grave without reproach , And scorn a rascal and a coach ! Alexander Pope . D XLVIII . LOVE AND DEBT . A Fragment . THERE'S Lyra Elegantiarum . 3333.
... birthday more a winner , Digest his thirty - thousandth dinner ; Walk to his grave without reproach , And scorn a rascal and a coach ! Alexander Pope . D XLVIII . LOVE AND DEBT . A Fragment . THERE'S Lyra Elegantiarum . 3333.
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... grave , Tho ' Love's a tyrant in your eyes , Your heart is but a slave . My love is full of noble pride ; Nor can it e'er submit To let that fop , Discretion , ride In triumph over it . False friends I have , as well as you , Who daily ...
... grave , Tho ' Love's a tyrant in your eyes , Your heart is but a slave . My love is full of noble pride ; Nor can it e'er submit To let that fop , Discretion , ride In triumph over it . False friends I have , as well as you , Who daily ...
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... grave , May I a small house and large garden have ! And a few friends , and many books ; both true , Both wise , and both delightful too ! And , since love ne'er will from me flee , A mistress moderately fair , And good as guardian ...
... grave , May I a small house and large garden have ! And a few friends , and many books ; both true , Both wise , and both delightful too ! And , since love ne'er will from me flee , A mistress moderately fair , And good as guardian ...
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... good morning to each day , There meditate my time away , And angle on and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave . Izaak Walton . LXXXIII . THE CONTENTED MAN . HAPPY the man whose 56 Lyra Elegantiarum . LXXXII. ...
... good morning to each day , There meditate my time away , And angle on and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave . Izaak Walton . LXXXIII . THE CONTENTED MAN . HAPPY the man whose 56 Lyra Elegantiarum . LXXXII. ...
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