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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... past compare , Made my poor eyes the bolder . Where beauty moves , and wit delights , And signs of kindness bind me , There , oh ! there , where'er I go , I leave my heart behind me . Unknown . XIV . PHILLIS is my only joy , Faithless ...
... past compare , Made my poor eyes the bolder . Where beauty moves , and wit delights , And signs of kindness bind me , There , oh ! there , where'er I go , I leave my heart behind me . Unknown . XIV . PHILLIS is my only joy , Faithless ...
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... me no more where Jove bestows , When June is past , the fading rose ; For in your beauties , orient deep , These flowers , as in their causes , sleep . Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms 20 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... me no more where Jove bestows , When June is past , the fading rose ; For in your beauties , orient deep , These flowers , as in their causes , sleep . Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms 20 Lyra Elegantiarum .
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... past ; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters , and keeps warm her note . Ask me no more where those stars light , That downwards fall in dead of night ; For in your eyes they sit , and there Fixed become , as in their sphere ...
... past ; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters , and keeps warm her note . Ask me no more where those stars light , That downwards fall in dead of night ; For in your eyes they sit , and there Fixed become , as in their sphere ...
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... past , Perchance as did the maid . The maid , and thereby hangs a tale , For such a maid no Whitsun - ale Could ever yet produce : No grape that's kindly ripe , could be So round , so soft , so plump as she Nor half so full of juice ...
... past , Perchance as did the maid . The maid , and thereby hangs a tale , For such a maid no Whitsun - ale Could ever yet produce : No grape that's kindly ripe , could be So round , so soft , so plump as she Nor half so full of juice ...
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... past life is mine no more , The flying hours are gone ; Like transitory dreams given o'er , Whose images are kept in store By memory alone . The time that is to come , is not ; How , then , can it be mine ? The present moment's all my ...
... past life is mine no more , The flying hours are gone ; Like transitory dreams given o'er , Whose images are kept in store By memory alone . The time that is to come , is not ; How , then , can it be mine ? The present moment's all my ...
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