Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de Société and Vers D'occasion in the English Language by Deceased AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson |
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... Walter Raleigh . XXIX . TO HIS MISTRESS OBJECTING TO HIS NEITHER TOYING NOR TAKING . You say I love not , ' cause I do not play Still with your curls , and kiss the time away . You blame me , too , because I can't devise Some sport to ...
... Walter Raleigh . XXIX . TO HIS MISTRESS OBJECTING TO HIS NEITHER TOYING NOR TAKING . You say I love not , ' cause I do not play Still with your curls , and kiss the time away . You blame me , too , because I can't devise Some sport to ...
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... be thy love . Sir Walter Raleigh . LI . OUT upon it , I have loved Three whole days together ; And am like to love three more , - If it prove fine weather . Time shall moult away his wings , Ere he shall LYRA ELEGANTIARUM .
... be thy love . Sir Walter Raleigh . LI . OUT upon it , I have loved Three whole days together ; And am like to love three more , - If it prove fine weather . Time shall moult away his wings , Ere he shall LYRA ELEGANTIARUM .
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... the stream . XCIX . Walter S. Landor . False tho ' she be to me and love . I'll ne'er pursue revenge ; For still the charmer I approve , Tho ' I deplore her change . In hours of bliss we oft have met , They 66 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM .
... the stream . XCIX . Walter S. Landor . False tho ' she be to me and love . I'll ne'er pursue revenge ; For still the charmer I approve , Tho ' I deplore her change . In hours of bliss we oft have met , They 66 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM .
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... now my steps to steady She , who once led me where she would , is gone , So when he calls me , Death shall find me ready . Walter S. Landor . CLXXV . ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH . FRIENDS ! hear the LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . 129 CLXXI. ...
... now my steps to steady She , who once led me where she would , is gone , So when he calls me , Death shall find me ready . Walter S. Landor . CLXXV . ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH . FRIENDS ! hear the LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . 129 CLXXI. ...
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... Walter S. Landor . CLXXVI . EPITAPH IN CROYLAND Abbey . MAN'S life is like unto a winter's day , - Some break their fast and so depart away . Others stay dinner , then depart full fed : The longest age but sups and goes to bed . O ...
... Walter S. Landor . CLXXVI . EPITAPH IN CROYLAND Abbey . MAN'S life is like unto a winter's day , - Some break their fast and so depart away . Others stay dinner , then depart full fed : The longest age but sups and goes to bed . O ...
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Alexander Pope Araminta beauty bliss blush bright Burnham-beeches charms cheek Chloe Cupid dance dear delight Derry doth e'er Earl eyes fair fate fear flowers gaze give gone grace hand happy haste hath hear heart Heaven heigh-ho Henry Luttrell hour John Wolcot Jonathan Swift kind kiss kiss'd Lady Landor lass laugh lips live look Lord Love's lover maid Matthew Prior mind morning muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once pain play pleasant pleasure poet poor Praed pray Robert Herrick rose round shepherd sigh sing Sir John Suckling sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sure swain sweet taste tears tell there's thine thing Thomas Carew Thomas Hood Thomas Moore thou thought thro to-morrow true Twas Unknown vers de société verse vex'd Walter wife William William Cowper wish young youth