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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... Rose and his Lines to a Girdle , and on this account only the last will be found here . On the other hand several have been omitted or given with omissions , because their tone is hardly suited to the more refined taste of the present ...
... Rose and his Lines to a Girdle , and on this account only the last will be found here . On the other hand several have been omitted or given with omissions , because their tone is hardly suited to the more refined taste of the present ...
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... but like the wind , That kisses everything it meets : And since thou canst with more than one , Thou'rt worthy to be kiss'd by none . The morning rose , that untouch'd stands , Arm'd with Lyra Elegantiarum . II XV. ...
... but like the wind , That kisses everything it meets : And since thou canst with more than one , Thou'rt worthy to be kiss'd by none . The morning rose , that untouch'd stands , Arm'd with Lyra Elegantiarum . II XV. ...
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... rose , that untouch'd stands , Arm'd with her briars , how sweet her smell ! But pluck'd , and strain'd through ruder hands , Her sweets no longer with her dwell ; But scent and beauty both are gone , And leaves fall from her , one by ...
... rose , that untouch'd stands , Arm'd with her briars , how sweet her smell ! But pluck'd , and strain'd through ruder hands , Her sweets no longer with her dwell ; But scent and beauty both are gone , And leaves fall from her , one by ...
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... rose In her cheek , I held so dear , Yea , a thousand liked well near ; And , in love with all together , Feared the enjoying either : ' Cause to be of one possess'd , Barr'd the hope of all the rest . XX . George Wither . CHARIS Her ...
... rose In her cheek , I held so dear , Yea , a thousand liked well near ; And , in love with all together , Feared the enjoying either : ' Cause to be of one possess'd , Barr'd the hope of all the rest . XX . George Wither . CHARIS Her ...
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... Ask me no more where Jove bestows , When June is past , the fading rose ; For in your beauties , orient deep , These flowers , as in their causes , sleep . Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms 20 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... Ask me no more where Jove bestows , When June is past , the fading rose ; For in your beauties , orient deep , These flowers , as in their causes , sleep . Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms 20 Lyra Elegantiarum .
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