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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... unknown to him . The Editor is of opinion that hitherto verse of real excellence and buoyancy has been seldom very long lost sight of ; in other words , that an unknown piece of such verse probably does not deserve to become better ...
... unknown to him . The Editor is of opinion that hitherto verse of real excellence and buoyancy has been seldom very long lost sight of ; in other words , that an unknown piece of such verse probably does not deserve to become better ...
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... Unknown . XIV . PHILLIS is my only joy , Faithless as the winds or seas , Sometimes cunning , sometimes coy , Yet she never fails to please ; If with a frown I am cast down , Phillis smiling , And beguiling , Makes me happier than ...
... Unknown . XIV . PHILLIS is my only joy , Faithless as the winds or seas , Sometimes cunning , sometimes coy , Yet she never fails to please ; If with a frown I am cast down , Phillis smiling , And beguiling , Makes me happier than ...
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... Unknown " WHAT WIGHT HE LOVED . " SHALL I tell you whom I love ? Hearken then awhile to me , And if such a woman move , As I now shall versifie , Be assur'd ' tis she or none That I love , and love alone . Nature did her so much right ...
... Unknown " WHAT WIGHT HE LOVED . " SHALL I tell you whom I love ? Hearken then awhile to me , And if such a woman move , As I now shall versifie , Be assur'd ' tis she or none That I love , and love alone . Nature did her so much right ...
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... Unknown . XXXV . CHERRY - RIPE . THERE is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies blow ; A heavenly paradise is that place , Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow ; There cherries grow that none may buy , Till cherry - ripe ...
... Unknown . XXXV . CHERRY - RIPE . THERE is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies blow ; A heavenly paradise is that place , Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow ; There cherries grow that none may buy , Till cherry - ripe ...
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... Unknown . LIV . TO LUCASTA , ON GOING BEYOND THE SEAS . A Fragment . IF to be absent were to be Away from thee ; Or that when I am gone You or I were alone ; Then , my Lucasta , might I crave Pity from blustering wind , or swallowing ...
... Unknown . LIV . TO LUCASTA , ON GOING BEYOND THE SEAS . A Fragment . IF to be absent were to be Away from thee ; Or that when I am gone You or I were alone ; Then , my Lucasta , might I crave Pity from blustering wind , or swallowing ...
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