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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... play'd , Plays not at all , but seems afraid ; With sighs so deep procures to weep , In howling wise , to see my doleful plight How sighs resound through heartless ground , Like a thousand vanquish'd men in bloody fight ! Clear wells ...
... play'd , Plays not at all , but seems afraid ; With sighs so deep procures to weep , In howling wise , to see my doleful plight How sighs resound through heartless ground , Like a thousand vanquish'd men in bloody fight ! Clear wells ...
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... play with fools , O what a fool was I ! Edward Vere , Earl of Oxford . VIII . HAPPY AS A SHEPHERD . AH ! what is love ! It is a pretty thing , As sweet unto a shepherd as a king , And sweeter , too ; For kings have cares that wait upon ...
... play with fools , O what a fool was I ! Edward Vere , Earl of Oxford . VIII . HAPPY AS A SHEPHERD . AH ! what is love ! It is a pretty thing , As sweet unto a shepherd as a king , And sweeter , too ; For kings have cares that wait upon ...
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... playing Forth I rode , forsooth , a - maying , When anon by 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 ...
... playing Forth I rode , forsooth , a - maying , When anon by 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 ...
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... play ; And this is love , as I hear say . " Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , saine ! ” — It is a sunshine mix'd with rain ; It is a tooth - ache , or like pain ; It is a game where none doth gain , The lass saith , No , and would ...
... play ; And this is love , as I hear say . " Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , saine ! ” — It is a sunshine mix'd with rain ; It is a tooth - ache , or like pain ; It is a game where none doth gain , The lass saith , No , and would ...
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... play Still with your curls , and kiss the time away . You blame me , too , because I can't devise Some sport , to please those babies in your eyes ; By Love's religion , I must here confess it , The most I love , when I the least ...
... play Still with your curls , and kiss the time away . You blame me , too , because I can't devise Some sport , to please those babies in your eyes ; By Love's religion , I must here confess it , The most I love , when I the least ...
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