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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... fears scorn I , Love hath forlorn me , living in thrall : Heart is bleeding , all help needing , ( O cruel speeding ! ) fraughted with gall . My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal , My wether's bell rings doleful knell ; My curtail dog ...
... fears scorn I , Love hath forlorn me , living in thrall : Heart is bleeding , all help needing , ( O cruel speeding ! ) fraughted with gall . My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal , My wether's bell rings doleful knell ; My curtail dog ...
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... fears , As many lives as years have hours , They should be all and only yours . XXIV . 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 ...
... fears , As many lives as years have hours , They should be all and only yours . XXIV . 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 ...
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... fears are in a lover . Thomas Carew . XXVIII . THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE . 66 ' SHEPHERD , what's love ? I pray thee , tell ! " — It is that fountain , and that well , Where pleasure and repentance dwell ; It is , perhaps ...
... fears are in a lover . Thomas Carew . XXVIII . THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE . 66 ' SHEPHERD , what's love ? I pray thee , tell ! " — It is that fountain , and that well , Where pleasure and repentance dwell ; It is , perhaps ...
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... fear'd the light : But O ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter - day Is half so fine a sight . Her cheeks so rare a white was on , No daisy makes comparison ; Who sees them is undone ; For streaks of red were mingled there ...
... fear'd the light : But O ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter - day Is half so fine a sight . Her cheeks so rare a white was on , No daisy makes comparison ; Who sees them is undone ; For streaks of red were mingled there ...
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... fears nor man nor woman . Sir John Suckling . XLIX . THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD . IF all the world and love were young , And truth in every shepherd's tongue , These pretty pleasures might me move , To live with thee ...
... fears nor man nor woman . Sir John Suckling . XLIX . THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD . IF all the world and love were young , And truth in every shepherd's tongue , These pretty pleasures might me move , To live with thee ...
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