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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... our pleasure known to us poor swains , All our merry meetings on the plains , All our evening sport from us is fled , All our Love is lost , for Love is dead . Farewell , sweet lass , thy like ne'er was For 4 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... our pleasure known to us poor swains , All our merry meetings on the plains , All our evening sport from us is fled , All our Love is lost , for Love is dead . Farewell , sweet lass , thy like ne'er was For 4 Lyra Elegantiarum .
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... Poor Coridon must live alone ; Other help for him I see that there is none . William Shakspere . VII . A RENUNCIATION . IF women could be fair , and yet not fond , Or that their love were firm , not fickle still , I would not marvel ...
... Poor Coridon must live alone ; Other help for him I see that there is none . William Shakspere . VII . A RENUNCIATION . IF women could be fair , and yet not fond , Or that their love were firm , not fickle still , I would not marvel ...
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... poor eyes the bolder . Where beauty moves , and wit delights , And signs of kindness bind me , There , oh ! there , where'er I go , I leave my heart behind me . Unknown . XIV . PHILLIS is my only joy , Faithless as the winds or seas ...
... poor eyes the bolder . Where beauty moves , and wit delights , And signs of kindness bind me , There , oh ! there , where'er I go , I leave my heart behind me . Unknown . XIV . PHILLIS is my only joy , Faithless as the winds or seas ...
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... poor kiss ; None sees the theft that would the theft reveal , Nor rob I her of aught that she can miss ; Nay , should I twenty kisses take away , There would be little sign I would do so ; Why then should I this robbery delay ? O , she ...
... poor kiss ; None sees the theft that would the theft reveal , Nor rob I her of aught that she can miss ; Nay , should I twenty kisses take away , There would be little sign I would do so ; Why then should I this robbery delay ? O , she ...
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... poor heart , Now is sick : One kiss from thee Will counsel be , And physic . Robert Herrick . • XLII . THE SIEGE . TIS now , since I sat down before That foolish fort , a heart , ( Time strangely spent ! ) a year , and more ; And still ...
... poor heart , Now is sick : One kiss from thee Will counsel be , And physic . Robert Herrick . • XLII . THE SIEGE . TIS now , since I sat down before That foolish fort , a heart , ( Time strangely spent ! ) a year , and more ; And still ...
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