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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... reason I should be the same ? He that can love unloved again , Hath better store of love than brain : God send me love my debts to pay , While unthrifts fool their love away ! Nothing could have my love o'erthrown , If thou hadst still ...
... reason I should be the same ? He that can love unloved again , Hath better store of love than brain : God send me love my debts to pay , While unthrifts fool their love away ! Nothing could have my love o'erthrown , If thou hadst still ...
Page 9
... reason cannot make them die , Discretion doth them cover . Yet , when discretion doth bereave The plaints that they should utter , Then thy discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor . Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words ...
... reason cannot make them die , Discretion doth them cover . Yet , when discretion doth bereave The plaints that they should utter , Then thy discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor . Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words ...
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... make knowne how much she hath ; And her anger flames no higher Than may fitly sweeten wrath . Full of pity as may be , Tho ' perhaps not so to me ! Reason masters every sense , And her virtues grace her 16 Lyra Elegantiarum . Unknown ...
... make knowne how much she hath ; And her anger flames no higher Than may fitly sweeten wrath . Full of pity as may be , Tho ' perhaps not so to me ! Reason masters every sense , And her virtues grace her 16 Lyra Elegantiarum . Unknown ...
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... Reason masters every sense , And her virtues grace her birth ; Lovely as all excellence , Modest in her most of mirth : Likelihood enough to prove Onely worth could kindle love . Such she is , and if you know Such a one as I have sung ...
... Reason masters every sense , And her virtues grace her birth ; Lovely as all excellence , Modest in her most of mirth : Likelihood enough to prove Onely worth could kindle love . Such she is , and if you know Such a one as I have sung ...
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... reason was , Before the parson could say grace , The company were seated . Now hats fly off , and youth carouse ; Healths first go round , and then the house , The bride's come thick and thick ; And when ' twas named another's health ...
... reason was , Before the parson could say grace , The company were seated . Now hats fly off , and youth carouse ; Healths first go round , and then the house , The bride's come thick and thick ; And when ' twas named another's health ...
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