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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... true poetic faculty is not of itself sufficient to guarantee capacity for this inferior branch of the art of versification . The writer of Occasional Verse , in order to be genuinely successful , must not only be something of a poet ...
... true poetic faculty is not of itself sufficient to guarantee capacity for this inferior branch of the art of versification . The writer of Occasional Verse , in order to be genuinely successful , must not only be something of a poet ...
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... true love hath my heart , and I have his , By just exchange one to the other given : I hold his dear , and mine he cannot miss , There never was a better bargain driven : My true love hath my heart , and I have his . His heart in me ...
... true love hath my heart , and I have his , By just exchange one to the other given : I hold his dear , and mine he cannot miss , There never was a better bargain driven : My true love hath my heart , and I have his . His heart in me ...
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... true love hath my heart , and I have his . Sir Philip Sydney . VI . My flocks feed not , my ewes breed not , My rams speed not , all is amiss : Love is dying , Faith's defying , Heart's denying , causer of this . All my merry jigs are ...
... true love hath my heart , and I have his . Sir Philip Sydney . VI . My flocks feed not , my ewes breed not , My rams speed not , all is amiss : Love is dying , Faith's defying , Heart's denying , causer of this . All my merry jigs are ...
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... a woodside , Where as May was in his pride , I espied , all alone , Phillida and Corydon . Much ado there was , God wot ! He would love , and she would not : She said , never man was true : He says 6 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... a woodside , Where as May was in his pride , I espied , all alone , Phillida and Corydon . Much ado there was , God wot ! He would love , and she would not : She said , never man was true : He says 6 Lyra Elegantiarum .
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... true : He says , none was false to you . He said , he had loved her long : She says , Love should have no wrong . Corydon would kiss her then , She says , maids must kiss no men , Till they do for good and all . Then she made the ...
... true : He says , none was false to you . He said , he had loved her long : She says , Love should have no wrong . Corydon would kiss her then , She says , maids must kiss no men , Till they do for good and all . Then she made the ...
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