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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... soon away ; Then , nymphs , take vantage while ye may , And this is love , as I hear say . " Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , show ! " — A thing that creeps , it cannot go , A prize that passeth to and fro , A thing for one , a ...
... soon away ; Then , nymphs , take vantage while ye may , And this is love , as I hear say . " Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , show ! " — A thing that creeps , it cannot go , A prize that passeth to and fro , A thing for one , a ...
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... Soon break , soon wither , soon forgotten . In folly ripe , in reason rotten . Thy belt of straw , and ivy buds , Thy coral clasps , and amber studs , All these in me no means can move , To come to thee , and be thy love . But could ...
... Soon break , soon wither , soon forgotten . In folly ripe , in reason rotten . Thy belt of straw , and ivy buds , Thy coral clasps , and amber studs , All these in me no means can move , To come to thee , and be thy love . But could ...
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... virtue will allow . If you'll prove loving , I'll prove kind , - If constant , I'll be true ; If Fortune chance to change your mind , I'll turn as soon as you . Since our affections , well ye know , In equal Lyra Elegantiarum . 39 LVI. ...
... virtue will allow . If you'll prove loving , I'll prove kind , - If constant , I'll be true ; If Fortune chance to change your mind , I'll turn as soon as you . Since our affections , well ye know , In equal Lyra Elegantiarum . 39 LVI. ...
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... Soon brings a well - built palace down . Poets , that lasting marble seek , Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand : our language grows , And , like the tide , our work o'erflows . Chaucer his sense can only boast , - The ...
... Soon brings a well - built palace down . Poets , that lasting marble seek , Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand : our language grows , And , like the tide , our work o'erflows . Chaucer his sense can only boast , - The ...
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... soon you'd ne'er suspect them ; For she'd persuade they wound by chance , Though certain aim and art direct them . She likes herself , yet others hates For that which in herself she prizes ; And , while she laughs at them , forgets She ...
... soon you'd ne'er suspect them ; For she'd persuade they wound by chance , Though certain aim and art direct them . She likes herself , yet others hates For that which in herself she prizes ; And , while she laughs at them , forgets She ...
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