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I am wearing my lazuli necklace , The necklace you fasten ' d askew ! Was there
ever so rude or so reckless A Darling as you ? Alas for the World , and its dearly
Bought triumph , its fugitive bliss ; Sometimes I half wish I were merely A plain or
...
I am wearing my lazuli necklace , The necklace you fasten ' d askew ! Was there
ever so rude or so reckless A Darling as you ? Alas for the World , and its dearly
Bought triumph , its fugitive bliss ; Sometimes I half wish I were merely A plain or
...
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The tardy shade moved forward to the Then , like to one who confirmation found
noon ; Of some dread secret half - accounted Betwixt the paths a dainty Beauty
stept , true , That swung a flower , and , smiling , hummed Who knew what hands
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The tardy shade moved forward to the Then , like to one who confirmation found
noon ; Of some dread secret half - accounted Betwixt the paths a dainty Beauty
stept , true , That swung a flower , and , smiling , hummed Who knew what hands
...
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She loved , may be , perfume , Soft textures , lace , a half - lit room ;Perchance too
candidly preferred “ Clarissa " to a gossip ' s word ; And , for the rest , would seem
to be Or proud , or dull — this Dorothy . She then must once have looked , as I ...
She loved , may be , perfume , Soft textures , lace , a half - lit room ;Perchance too
candidly preferred “ Clarissa " to a gossip ' s word ; And , for the rest , would seem
to be Or proud , or dull — this Dorothy . She then must once have looked , as I ...
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I then could frolic in the van With dukes and dandy earls ; Then I was thought a
nice young man By rather nice young girls ! I ' ve half a mind to join Miss Browne ,
And try one canter up and down . I ' ll halt beneath those pleasant trees ,And ...
I then could frolic in the van With dukes and dandy earls ; Then I was thought a
nice young man By rather nice young girls ! I ' ve half a mind to join Miss Browne ,
And try one canter up and down . I ' ll halt beneath those pleasant trees ,And ...
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I ' ve ridden the filly you broke ; You ' ll come to our Ball ; — since we parted , And
I ' ve studied your sweet little Dante I ' ve thought of you more than I ' ll say ; In the
shade of your favourite oak ; Indeed , I was half broken - hearted When I sat in ...
I ' ve ridden the filly you broke ; You ' ll come to our Ball ; — since we parted , And
I ' ve studied your sweet little Dante I ' ve thought of you more than I ' ll say ; In the
shade of your favourite oak ; Indeed , I was half broken - hearted When I sat in ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems |
| Authors | Austin Dobson, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Winthrop Mackworth Praed |
| Illustrated by | Maud Humphrey |
| Publisher | Frederick A. Stokes, 1892 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 71 pages |
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