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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... heavens to witness , truth Never loved a truer youth . Thus , with many a pretty oath , Yea , and nay , and faith and troth ! - Such as silly shepherds use When they will not love abuse ; Love , which had been long deluded , Was with ...
... heavens to witness , truth Never loved a truer youth . Thus , with many a pretty oath , Yea , and nay , and faith and troth ! - Such as silly shepherds use When they will not love abuse ; Love , which had been long deluded , Was with ...
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... Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive Which own'd the creature . Yeeres he numbred scarce thirteene When Fates turn'd cruell , Yet three fill'd Zodiackes had he beene The stage's jewell ; And did act ( what now we mone ) Old men so duely ...
... Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive Which own'd the creature . Yeeres he numbred scarce thirteene When Fates turn'd cruell , Yet three fill'd Zodiackes had he beene The stage's jewell ; And did act ( what now we mone ) Old men so duely ...
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... heaven or hell ; And this is love , as I heard tell . " Yet , what is love ? I pray thee , say ! " — It is a work on holiday : It is December match'd with May , When lusty woods , in fresh array , Hear , ten months after , of the play ...
... heaven or hell ; And this is love , as I heard tell . " Yet , what is love ? I pray thee , say ! " — It is a work on holiday : It is December match'd with May , When lusty woods , in fresh array , Hear , ten months after , of the play ...
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... heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair . Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past ; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters , and keeps warm her note . Ask me no more where those stars light ...
... heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair . Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past ; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters , and keeps warm her note . Ask me no more where those stars light ...
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... heaven , the Sun , The higher he's a - getting , The sooner will his race be run , And nearer he's to setting . That age is best , which is the first , When youth and blood are warmer But being spent , the worse , and worst Times still ...
... heaven , the Sun , The higher he's a - getting , The sooner will his race be run , And nearer he's to setting . That age is best , which is the first , When youth and blood are warmer But being spent , the worse , and worst Times still ...
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