The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes, Volume 5 |
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... looke otherwise , With pure regard and spotlesse true intent , Drawing out of the obiect of their eyes A more refyned form , which they present Unto their mind , voide of all blemishment ; Which it reducing to her first perfection ...
... looke otherwise , With pure regard and spotlesse true intent , Drawing out of the obiect of their eyes A more refyned form , which they present Unto their mind , voide of all blemishment ; Which it reducing to her first perfection ...
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... looke , who list thy gazefull eyes to feed With sight of that is faire , looke on the frame Of this wyde universe , and therein reed The endlesse kinds of creatures which by name Thou canst not count , much less their natures aime ; All ...
... looke , who list thy gazefull eyes to feed With sight of that is faire , looke on the frame Of this wyde universe , and therein reed The endlesse kinds of creatures which by name Thou canst not count , much less their natures aime ; All ...
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Edmund Spenser. Looke thou no further , but affixe thine eye 50 On that bright shynie round still moving masse , The house of Blessed God , which men call Skye , All sowd with glistring stars more thicke then grasse , Whereof each other ...
Edmund Spenser. Looke thou no further , but affixe thine eye 50 On that bright shynie round still moving masse , The house of Blessed God , which men call Skye , All sowd with glistring stars more thicke then grasse , Whereof each other ...
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... looke , Which He hath made in beauty excellent , And in the same , as in a brasen booke , 130 To read enregistred in every nooke His goodnesse , which His Beautie doth declare ; For all thats good is beautifull and faire . 135 Thence ...
... looke , Which He hath made in beauty excellent , And in the same , as in a brasen booke , 130 To read enregistred in every nooke His goodnesse , which His Beautie doth declare ; For all thats good is beautifull and faire . 135 Thence ...
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... looke up with córruptible eye On the dred face of that Great Deity , For feare , lest if He chaunce to look on thee , Thou turne to nought , and quite confounded be . But lowly fall before His mercie seate , Close covered with the ...
... looke up with córruptible eye On the dred face of that Great Deity , For feare , lest if He chaunce to look on thee , Thou turne to nought , and quite confounded be . But lowly fall before His mercie seate , Close covered with the ...
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Arthur Gorges aspyre Astrophill beasts beautie behold bowre brave brest bright celestiall cleave asunder cruell deare death delight devize dight doest dolefull doth dreadfull earth earthly eccho ring eternall eyes face faire falconry farre fayre feare flowres foorth Foxe fyre gentle glorie glorious goodly grace griefe grone happie hart hath heart heaven heavenly hight himselfe honour Hymen immortall ioyes ioyous LADIE lament light live Lord LYCON lyke mightie mortall mourne Muses mynd never night noble nought Nymphes paine plaint pleasure powre praid praise prayses pride rest Rome sacred Sapience scorne seeke seem'd selfe shee shepheards shew shyning sight sing Sith skie song sorrow soule spide spoyle spright sunne sweet teares thee thereof theyr things thou thought twixt unto vaine vertue weene weepe Whilest whilome wight wings wize wont woods wretched
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Page 137 - Sun, shew forth thy favourable ray, And let thy lifull heat not fervent be, For feare of burning her sunshyny face, Her beauty to disgrace.
Page 138 - Arysing forth to run her mighty race, Clad all in white, that seems a Virgin best. So well it her beseems, that ye would weene Some Angell she had beene.
Page 138 - Upon the lowly ground affixed are; Ne dare lift up her countenance too bold, But blush to heare her prayses sung so loud, So farre from being proud.
Page 284 - Doth rather choose to sit in idle Cell, Than so himselfe to mockerie to sell. So am I made the servant of the manie, And laughing stocke of all that list to scorne, Not honored nor cared for of anie...
Page 136 - T' awayt the comming of your joyous make, And hearken to the birds love-learned song, The deawy leaves among? For they of joy and pleasance to you sing, That all the woods them answer, and...
Page 139 - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?
Page 48 - Their joy, their comfort, their desire, their gaine, Is fixed all on that which now they see, All other sights but fayned shadowes bee.
Page 172 - Out of her course doth wander far astray; So I, whose star, that wont with her bright ray Me to direct, with clouds is overcast, Do wander now, in darkness and dismay, Through hidden perils round about me placed.
Page 141 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty, That suffers not one look to glance awry Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Page 283 - And he, the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock her selfe, and truth to imitate, With kindly counter* under mimick shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late: With whom all ioy and iolly meriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent**.