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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... sleeping , Nymphs back peeping fearfully : All 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 ...
... sleeping , Nymphs back peeping fearfully : All 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 ...
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... sleeps as sound As doth the king upon his bed of down , More sounder , too ; For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill , Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill : Ah then , & c . Thus with his wife he spends the year as ...
... sleeps as sound As doth the king upon his bed of down , More sounder , too ; For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill , Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill : Ah then , & c . Thus with his wife he spends the year as ...
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... sleep hath closed up those eyes Which , waking , kept my boldest thoughts in awe ; And free access unto that sweet lip lies , From whence I long the rosy breath to draw . Methinks no wrong it were , if I should steal From those two ...
... sleep hath closed up those eyes Which , waking , kept my boldest thoughts in awe ; And free access unto that sweet lip lies , From whence I long the rosy breath to draw . Methinks no wrong it were , if I should steal From those two ...
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... more where Jove bestows , When June is past , the fading rose ; For in your beauties , orient deep , These flowers , as in their causes , sleep . Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms 20 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... more where Jove bestows , When June is past , the fading rose ; For in your beauties , orient deep , These flowers , as in their causes , sleep . Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms 20 Lyra Elegantiarum .
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... sleeps there . Robert Herrick . XXXII UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES . WHEN as in silks my Julia goes , Then , then , methinks , how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes . Next , when I cast mine eyes , and see That brave vibration each ...
... sleeps there . Robert Herrick . XXXII UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES . WHEN as in silks my Julia goes , Then , then , methinks , how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes . Next , when I cast mine eyes , and see That brave vibration each ...
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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