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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... sure you will make allowance for many shortcomings , and will charitably believe that the Editor tried to do his best . I ani , Dear Mr. Dean , Yours very faithfully , FREDERICK LOCKER . PREFACE . So many collections of favourite ...
... sure you will make allowance for many shortcomings , and will charitably believe that the Editor tried to do his best . I ani , Dear Mr. Dean , Yours very faithfully , FREDERICK LOCKER . PREFACE . So many collections of favourite ...
Page 39
... Sure he that loves his lady ' cause she's fair , Delights his eye , so loves himself , not her . Something there is moves me to love , and I Do know I love , but know not how , nor why . Alexander Brome . LVII . THE PEREMPTORY LOVER ...
... Sure he that loves his lady ' cause she's fair , Delights his eye , so loves himself , not her . Something there is moves me to love , and I Do know I love , but know not how , nor why . Alexander Brome . LVII . THE PEREMPTORY LOVER ...
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... sure to find ye there . Robert Herrick . LXIII . THE PRESENT MOMENT . ALL my past life is mine no more , The flying hours are gone ; Like transitory dreams given o'er , Whose images are kept in store By memory alone . The time that is ...
... sure to find ye there . Robert Herrick . LXIII . THE PRESENT MOMENT . ALL my past life is mine no more , The flying hours are gone ; Like transitory dreams given o'er , Whose images are kept in store By memory alone . The time that is ...
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... sure to die ? Fear not , though love and beauty fail , My reason shall my heart direct : Your kindness now shall then prevail , And passion turn into respect . Celia , at worst , you'll in the end But change a lover for a friend . LXXI ...
... sure to die ? Fear not , though love and beauty fail , My reason shall my heart direct : Your kindness now shall then prevail , And passion turn into respect . Celia , at worst , you'll in the end But change a lover for a friend . LXXI ...
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... sure : I'm not committed , but I'm kept secure . And whilst I wish to be retired , Into this private room I'm turn'd ; As if their wisdom had conspired The salamander should be burn'd . Or , like those sophists who would drown a fish ...
... sure : I'm not committed , but I'm kept secure . And whilst I wish to be retired , Into this private room I'm turn'd ; As if their wisdom had conspired The salamander should be burn'd . Or , like those sophists who would drown a fish ...
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Alexander Pope beauty Ben Jonson bliss blush Bouillabaisse bright Burnham-beeches C. S. Calverley charms cheek Chloe cried Cupid dear delight Derry doth Earl eyes face fair fear flowers give gone grace grave hand happy hath hear heart Heaven heigh-ho John Wolcot kind kiss Lady laugh lips live look Lord Love's lover maid Matthew Prior mind morning muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once pain passion play pleasant pleasure poem poet Poetical poor Praed pray Robert Herrick rose round shepherd sigh sing sleep smile soft song soul sure swain sweet taste tears tell thee There's thine thing Thomas Thomas Carew Thomas Hood Thomas Moore thou thought thro tree true Twas Unknown verse Walter Savage Landor wife William William Cowper William Makepeace Thackeray wine wish young youth