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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... grows , Most barren with best using . Why so ? More we enjoy it , more it dies , If not enjoy'd , it sighing cries Heigh - ho ! Love is a torment of the mind , A tempest everlasting ; And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well , nor full ...
... grows , Most barren with best using . Why so ? More we enjoy it , more it dies , If not enjoy'd , it sighing cries Heigh - ho ! Love is a torment of the mind , A tempest everlasting ; And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well , nor full ...
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... grow ! Well , if she do , I'll back restore that one , And twenty hundred thousand more for loan . George Wither . XVIII . TO CELIA . DRINK to me only with thine eyes , And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I ...
... grow ! Well , if she do , I'll back restore that one , And twenty hundred thousand more for loan . George Wither . XVIII . TO CELIA . DRINK to me only with thine eyes , And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I ...
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... grows , and smells , I swear , Not of itself , but thee ! Ben Jonson . XIX . A MADRIGAL . AMARYLLIS I did woo , And I courted Phillis too ; Daphne for her love I chose , Chloris , for that damask rose In her cheek , I held so dear , Yea ...
... grows , and smells , I swear , Not of itself , but thee ! Ben Jonson . XIX . A MADRIGAL . AMARYLLIS I did woo , And I courted Phillis too ; Daphne for her love I chose , Chloris , for that damask rose In her cheek , I held so dear , Yea ...
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... grow , Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall o ' the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down ever ? Or have smell'd o ' the bud of the briar ? Or the ...
... grow , Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall o ' the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down ever ? Or have smell'd o ' the bud of the briar ? Or the ...
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... grow ; There cherries grow that none may buy , Till cherry - ripe themselves do cry . Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double 22 Lyra Elegantiarum . XXXIII. ...
... grow ; There cherries grow that none may buy , Till cherry - ripe themselves do cry . Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double 22 Lyra Elegantiarum . XXXIII. ...
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Alexander Pope beauty Ben Jonson bliss blush Bouillabaisse bright Burnham-beeches C. S. Calverley charms cheek Chloe cried Cupid dear delight Derry doth Earl eyes face fair fear flowers give gone grace grave hand happy hath hear heart Heaven heigh-ho John Wolcot kind kiss Lady laugh lips live look Lord Love's lover maid Matthew Prior mind morning muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once pain passion play pleasant pleasure poem poet Poetical poor Praed pray Robert Herrick rose round shepherd sigh sing sleep smile soft song soul sure swain sweet taste tears tell thee There's thine thing Thomas Thomas Carew Thomas Hood Thomas Moore thou thought thro tree true Twas Unknown verse Walter Savage Landor wife William William Cowper William Makepeace Thackeray wine wish young youth