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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... tears ; - Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow , green , and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak , And bending , yet it doth not break ; I must tell you , these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . Thomas Carew ...
... tears ; - Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow , green , and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak , And bending , yet it doth not break ; I must tell you , these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . Thomas Carew ...
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... tears to thread , instead of pearl , On bracelets of thy hair . The trumpet makes the echo hoarse , And wakes the louder drum ; Expense of grief gains no remorse , When sorrow should be dumb . For I must go where lazy peace Will hide ...
... tears to thread , instead of pearl , On bracelets of thy hair . The trumpet makes the echo hoarse , And wakes the louder drum ; Expense of grief gains no remorse , When sorrow should be dumb . For I must go where lazy peace Will hide ...
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... tears we'll send a speedier way : The tide shall bring them twice a day . The king with wonder and surprise , Will swear the seas grow bold ; Because the tides will higher rise Than e'er they did Lyra Elegantiarum . 49 LXXVI. ...
... tears we'll send a speedier way : The tide shall bring them twice a day . The king with wonder and surprise , Will swear the seas grow bold ; Because the tides will higher rise Than e'er they did Lyra Elegantiarum . 49 LXXVI. ...
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... tears Bring floods of grief to Whitehall - stairs . Should foggy Opdam chance to know Our sad and dismal story , The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe , And quit their fort at Goree ; For what resistance can they find From men who've left ...
... tears Bring floods of grief to Whitehall - stairs . Should foggy Opdam chance to know Our sad and dismal story , The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe , And quit their fort at Goree ; For what resistance can they find From men who've left ...
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... tears ; Let's hear of no inconstancy , We have too much of that at sea . With a fa la , la , la , la . Charles Sackville , Earl of Dorset . LXXVII . TO ALTHEA , FROM PRISON . WHEN Love with unconfinèd wings Hovers within my gates , And ...
... tears ; Let's hear of no inconstancy , We have too much of that at sea . With a fa la , la , la , la . Charles Sackville , Earl of Dorset . LXXVII . TO ALTHEA , FROM PRISON . WHEN Love with unconfinèd wings Hovers within my gates , And ...
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