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Hitherto this kind of metrical composition has remained difficult of access to the
majority of readers , because its most finished specimens have often lain
scattered among masses of poetry , more ambitious in aim , but frequently far less
worthy ...
Hitherto this kind of metrical composition has remained difficult of access to the
majority of readers , because its most finished specimens have often lain
scattered among masses of poetry , more ambitious in aim , but frequently far less
worthy ...
Page xiii
This frequent liability to failure will excite less surprise if it be borne in mind that
the possession of the true poetic faculty is not of itself sufficient to guarantee
capacity for this inferior branch of the art of versification . The writer of Occasional
...
This frequent liability to failure will excite less surprise if it be borne in mind that
the possession of the true poetic faculty is not of itself sufficient to guarantee
capacity for this inferior branch of the art of versification . The writer of Occasional
...
Page xvi
Thus , The Milkmaid's Song , commencing : “ Come live with me , and be my love
, " appears to be too poetical , while the less beautiful , but almost as charming
Reply has been admitted , because it is depressed to the requisite level by the ...
Thus , The Milkmaid's Song , commencing : “ Come live with me , and be my love
, " appears to be too poetical , while the less beautiful , but almost as charming
Reply has been admitted , because it is depressed to the requisite level by the ...
Page 27
XLI . THE HEAD - ACHE . 1 My head doth ache , 0 , Sappho ! take Thy fillet , And
bind the pain ! Or bring some bane To kill it . But less that part Than my poor heart
, Now is sick : One kiss from thee Will counsel be , And physic . Robert Herrick .
XLI . THE HEAD - ACHE . 1 My head doth ache , 0 , Sappho ! take Thy fillet , And
bind the pain ! Or bring some bane To kill it . But less that part Than my poor heart
, Now is sick : One kiss from thee Will counsel be , And physic . Robert Herrick .
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THYRSIS , a youth of the inspired train , Fair Sacharissa loved , but loved in vain :
Like Phoebus sung the no less amorous boy ; Like Daphne she , as lovely , and
as coy ! With numbers he the flying nymph pursues ; With numbers , such as ...
THYRSIS , a youth of the inspired train , Fair Sacharissa loved , but loved in vain :
Like Phoebus sung the no less amorous boy ; Like Daphne she , as lovely , and
as coy ! With numbers he the flying nymph pursues ; With numbers , such as ...
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| Title | Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English Authors Volume 21 of Minerva library of famous books The Minerva Library Volume 21 of The Minerva library of famous books. Ed. by G. T. Bettany. [v. 21] |
| Editors | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Ward, Lock, 1891 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 425 pages |
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