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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... Rose , " and his " Lines to a Girdle , " and on this account only the last will be found here . Isaac D'Israeli , in his Miscellanies , has some interesting remarks on vers de société . " The pas- sions of the poet , " he says , " may ...
... Rose , " and his " Lines to a Girdle , " and on this account only the last will be found here . Isaac D'Israeli , in his Miscellanies , has some interesting remarks on vers de société . " The pas- sions of the poet , " he says , " may ...
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... rose in June , Persuade delay ; What boots she say , " Forego me now , come to me soon . 99 Unknown . XV . O MISTRESS mine , where are you roaming ? stay and hear ! your true love's coming , That can sing both high and low ; Trip no ...
... rose in June , Persuade delay ; What boots she say , " Forego me now , come to me soon . 99 Unknown . XV . O MISTRESS mine , where are you roaming ? stay and hear ! your true love's coming , That can sing both high and low ; Trip no ...
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... rose , that untouch'd stands , Arm'd with her briars , how sweet her smell ! But pluck'd , and strain'd through ruder hands , Her sweets no longer with her dwell ; But scent and beauty both are gone , And leaves fall from her , one by ...
... rose , that untouch'd stands , Arm'd with her briars , how sweet her smell ! But pluck'd , and strain'd through ruder hands , Her sweets no longer with her dwell ; But scent and beauty both are gone , And leaves fall from her , one by ...
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... rose In her cheek , I held so dear , Yea , a thousand liked well near ; And in love with all together , Feared the enjoying either : ' Cause to be of one possess'd , Barr'd the hope of all the rest . George Wither . XX . CHARIS . Her ...
... rose In her cheek , I held so dear , Yea , a thousand liked well near ; And in love with all together , Feared the enjoying either : ' Cause to be of one possess'd , Barr'd the hope of all the rest . George Wither . XX . CHARIS . Her ...
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... Ask 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 . 3 Ask me no more whither do stray The golden 20 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM .
... Ask 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 . 3 Ask me no more whither do stray The golden 20 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM .
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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