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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... ; It is a tooth - ache , or like pain ; It is a game where none doth gain , The lass saith , No , and would full fain ! And this is love , as I hear saine . - " Yet , shepherd , what is love , I LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . t 19.
... ; It is a tooth - ache , or like pain ; It is a game where none doth gain , The lass saith , No , and would full fain ! And this is love , as I hear saine . - " Yet , shepherd , what is love , I LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . t 19.
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... pain ! Or bring some bane To kill it . But less that part Than my poor heart , Now is sick : One kiss from thee Will counsel be , And physic . Robert Herrick . XLII . THE SIEGE . ' Tis now , since I sat down before That foolish fort , a ...
... pain ! Or bring some bane To kill it . But less that part Than my poor heart , Now is sick : One kiss from thee Will counsel be , And physic . Robert Herrick . XLII . THE SIEGE . ' Tis now , since I sat down before That foolish fort , a ...
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... pain ! When I this dawning did admire , And praised the coming day , I little thought the rising fire Would take my rest away . Your charms in harmless childhood lay Like metals in a mine ; Age from no face takes more away Than youth ...
... pain ! When I this dawning did admire , And praised the coming day , I little thought the rising fire Would take my rest away . Your charms in harmless childhood lay Like metals in a mine ; Age from no face takes more away Than youth ...
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... Pains not the heart , but hurts the sight . Love is a calmer , gentler joy : Smooth are his looks , and soft his pace ; Her Cupid is a blackguard boy , That runs his link full in your face . Charles Sackville , Earl of Dorset . LXXVII ...
... Pains not the heart , but hurts the sight . Love is a calmer , gentler joy : Smooth are his looks , and soft his pace ; Her Cupid is a blackguard boy , That runs his link full in your face . Charles Sackville , Earl of Dorset . LXXVII ...
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... pain ; The fruitful ground , the quiet mind , The equal friend ; no grudge , no strife ; No charge of rule , nor governance ; Without disease , the healthful life ; The household of continuance ; The mean diet , no delicate fare ; True ...
... pain ; The fruitful ground , the quiet mind , The equal friend ; no grudge , no strife ; No charge of rule , nor governance ; Without disease , the healthful life ; The household of continuance ; The mean diet , no delicate fare ; True ...
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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