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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... fair specimen . Mr. Hood was very happy in this kind of composition , where a conceit is built up on some pointed absurdity . Occasional Verse should seem to be entirely spon- taneous when the reader thinks to himself , “ I could have ...
... fair specimen . Mr. Hood was very happy in this kind of composition , where a conceit is built up on some pointed absurdity . Occasional Verse should seem to be entirely spon- taneous when the reader thinks to himself , “ I could have ...
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... fair , and yet not fond , Or that their love were firm , not fickle still , I would not marvel that they make men bond By service long to purchase their good will ; But when I see how frail those creatures are , I muse that men forget ...
... fair , and yet not fond , Or that their love were firm , not fickle still , I would not marvel that they make men bond By service long to purchase their good will ; But when I see how frail those creatures are , I muse that men forget ...
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... cannot be found In any place on English ground , Be it at wake or fair . At Charing Cross , hard by the way Where we ( thou knowst ) do sell our hay There is a house with stairs ; And there did 30 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... cannot be found In any place on English ground , Be it at wake or fair . At Charing Cross , hard by the way Where we ( thou knowst ) do sell our hay There is a house with stairs ; And there did 30 Lyra Elegantiarum .
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... fair account has run ( Without a blot ) to eighty - one . Kind Boyle , before his poet , lays A table , with a cloth of bays ; And Ireland , mother of sweet singers , Presents her harp still to his fingers . The feast , his towering ...
... fair account has run ( Without a blot ) to eighty - one . Kind Boyle , before his poet , lays A table , with a cloth of bays ; And Ireland , mother of sweet singers , Presents her harp still to his fingers . The feast , his towering ...
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... fair , Softer than down , smoother than air ; Nor for the Cupids that do lie In either corner of thine eye : Would'st thou then know what it might be ? - ' Tis I love thee ' cause thou lov'st me . Unknown . LVI . ' Tis not her birth ...
... fair , Softer than down , smoother than air ; Nor for the Cupids that do lie In either corner of thine eye : Would'st thou then know what it might be ? - ' Tis I love thee ' cause thou lov'st me . Unknown . LVI . ' Tis not her birth ...
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