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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... lady's love is lost , God wot : Where her faith was firmly fix'd in love , There a nay is placed without remove . One silly cross wrought all my loss ; O frowning Fortune , cursed , fickle dame ! For now I see inconstancy More in women ...
... lady's love is lost , God wot : Where her faith was firmly fix'd in love , There a nay is placed without remove . One silly cross wrought all my loss ; O frowning Fortune , cursed , fickle dame ! For now I see inconstancy More in women ...
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... cares can make the sweetest loves to frown : Ah then , ah then , If country loves such sweet desires do gain , What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? His flocks are folded ; he comes home at night Lyra Elegantiarum . 5.
... cares can make the sweetest loves to frown : Ah then , ah then , If country loves such sweet desires do gain , What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? His flocks are folded ; he comes home at night Lyra Elegantiarum . 5.
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... lady of the May . Nicholas Breton . X. SEND back my long - stray'd eyes to me , Which , O ! too long have dwelt on thee : But if from you they've learnt such ill , To sweetly smile , And then beguile , Keep the deceivers , keep them ...
... lady of the May . Nicholas Breton . X. SEND back my long - stray'd eyes to me , Which , O ! too long have dwelt on thee : But if from you they've learnt such ill , To sweetly smile , And then beguile , Keep the deceivers , keep them ...
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... lady rideth ! Each that draws is a swan or a dove , And well the car Love guideth . As she goes all hearts do duty Unto her beauty ; And enamour'd , do wish , as they might But enjoy such a sight , That they still were to run by her ...
... lady rideth ! Each that draws is a swan or a dove , And well the car Love guideth . As she goes all hearts do duty Unto her beauty ; And enamour'd , do wish , as they might But enjoy such a sight , That they still were to run by her ...
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... Lady , it is already morn ; It was last night I swore to thee That fond impossibility . Yet have I loved thee well , and long ; A tedious twelve - hours ' space ! I should all other beauties wrong , And rob thee of a new embrace , Did I ...
... Lady , it is already morn ; It was last night I swore to thee That fond impossibility . Yet have I loved thee well , and long ; A tedious twelve - hours ' space ! I should all other beauties wrong , And rob thee of a new embrace , Did I ...
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